Ladivine: A novel

by Marie NDiaye

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From the hugely acclaimed author of Three Strong Women—“a masterpiece of narrative ingenuity and emotional extremes” (The New York Times)—here is a harrowing and subtly crafted novel of a woman captive to a secret shame.

On the first Tuesday of every month, Clarisse Rivière leaves her husband and young daughter and secretly takes the train to Bordeaux to visit her mother, Ladivine. Just as Clarisse’s husband and daughter know nothing of Ladivine, Clarisse herself has hidden nearly every aspect of her adult life from this woman, whom she dreads and despises but also pities. Long ago abandoned by Clarisse’s...Read more
  • ISBN10 0385351887
  • ISBN13 9780385351881
  • Publish Date 26 April 2016 (first published 14 February 2013)
  • Publish Status Out of Stock
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Alfred A. Knopf