Three Strong Women : Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize by NDiaye, Marie

Author: NDiaye, Marie Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)Published on 10 September 2026 by Quercus Publishing (MacLehose Press) in the United Kingdom. Paperback | 288 pages 196 x 128 | 200g 'NDiaye will win the Nobel Prize' New YorkerA Booker International Prize Shortlistee and Winner of the Prix Goncourt. The story of three women who say no: Norah, a French-born lawyer who finds herself in Senegal, summoned by her estranged father to save another victim of his paternity; Fanta, who leaves a contented life as a teacher in Dakar to follow her boyfriend back to France, where his depression and dislocation poison everything; and Khady, a penniless widow put out by her husband's family with nothing but the name of a distant cousin in France.In Marie NDiaye's stunning narration we see the progress by which ordinary women discover unimagined reserves of strength.