Search results
Three Strong Women (French: Trois Femmes puissantes) is a 2009 novel by French writer Marie NDiaye. It won the 2009 Prix Goncourt, France's most prestigious literary award. The English translation by John Fletcher was published in April, 2012, in the UK by MacLehose Press, and in August, 2012, by Knopf in the USA.
- Marie NDiaye
- 2009
Aug 20, 2009 · Three Strong Women. Marie NDiaye, John Fletcher (Translator) 3.22. 3,844 ratings503 reviews. In this new novel, the first by a black woman ever to win the coveted Prix Goncourt, Marie NDiaye creates a luminous narrative triptych as harrowing as it is beautiful.
- (3.8K)
- Hardcover
Marie NDiaye, one of France’s most exciting prose stylists and playwrights, succeeds with elegance, grit and some painful comedy in Three Strong Women. . . . Its three heroines have an unassailable sense of their own self-worth, while their psychological battles have an almost mythic resonance. . . .
- Paperback
Aug 10, 2012 · In “Three Strong Women,” we enter the consciousness of characters who are either bordering on lunacy or at the mercy of the clearly delusional — or who, in the case of the unschooled slum ...
May 21, 2013 · Marie NDiaye, one of France’s most exciting prose stylists and playwrights, succeeds with elegance, grit and some painful comedy in Three Strong Women. . . . Its three heroines have an unassailable sense of their own self-worth, while their psychological battles have an almost mythic resonance. . . .
- (171)
- Marie NDiaye
- $11.29
- Vintage
Aug 7, 2012 · Three Strong Women. Hardcover – Deckle Edge, August 7, 2012. In this new novel, the first by a black woman ever to win the coveted Prix Goncourt, Marie NDiaye creates a luminous narrative triptych as harrowing as it is beautiful.
Longlisted for The 2014 International IMPAC DUBLIN Literary Award. From Marie NDiaye, the first black woman to win the Prix Goncourt, a harrowing and beautiful novel of the travails of West African immigrants in France.
