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.
This is the story of three women who say no: Norah, a French-born...
Les contes du chat perché - « Comme le loup protestait de ses bonnes intentions, elle lui jeta par le nez :
— Et l'agneau, alors ?… Oui, l'agneau que vous avez mangé ?
Le loup...
When the city of Haven falls to the forces of a dragon overlord, Usha and Dezra Majere find themselves prisoners in a captive city. Unable to leave, the two women become entangled in the city’s struggle for freedom.
But as family loyalties...
"The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony" is a book without any modern parallel. Forming an active link in a chain that reaches back through Ovid's METAMORPHOSES directly to Homer, Roberto Calasso's re-exploration of the fantastic fables and mysteries...