Description
Once a month, Clarisse Rivière boards a train to visit her mother, Ladivine—an errand that begins as devotion and gradually reveals itself as something stranger, darker, and harder to name. In a haunting, ghost-haunted landscape shaped by immigration and exile, the novel follows dislocated women caught in cycles of memory, violence, and repetition, where family ties offer no simple refuge. Through a disquieting blend of the uncanny and the intimate, the story explores barren parent-child relationships, rootless limboland, and the unsettling ways racial identity can become both a presence and a void. Marie NDiaye’s incisive, dreamlike style turns the journey into a looking-glass experience—one that asks what it means to inherit a life when the past refuses to stay buried.
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audiobook
Highbridge Audio and Blackstone Publishing
Published Mar 1, 2021
1 pages
ISBN: 9781665149891
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First Published
2013
Language
fra
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