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By: Marie NDiaye

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  • CategoryFantasy
  • LanguageEnglish
  • Pages144
  • Published1996
  • File size1.9 MB
  • FormatPDF
  • ISBN9798217006809

Key ideas from the book

  • Witchcraft and inherited gifts shape the relationships between Lucie and her daughters.
  • The twins’ growing powers unsettle the family’s existing balance.
  • The novel examines the tensions of motherhood and marriage.
  • Maud and Lise face a choice between family closeness and independence.
  • The story combines fantasy with a disquieting family drama.

About The Witch by Marie NDiaye

Set in a small French town, Marie NDiaye’s contemporary novel follows Lucie, a witch from a family in which magical gifts pass from mother to daughter. Against her controlling husband’s wishes, Lucie introduces her twin daughters, Maud and Lise, to their inheritance.

As the twins’ powers grow, the story brings witchcraft into a tense family drama about motherhood, marriage, and the pull between staying close and seeking freedom. Its dreamlike, disquieting blend of fantasy and literary fiction may appeal to readers interested in French literature, witches, and uneasy explorations of family ties.

About Marie NDiaye

Marie NDiaye is a French novelist and playwright, born in 1967 in Pithiviers, France. She began publishing as a teenager and has written fiction, drama, and essays characterized by psychologically intense prose, unsettling transformations, and explorations of identity, family, social power, and displacement. Her notable works include Rosie Carpe, My Heart Hemmed In, Ladivine, and the play Hilda. In 2009, she won the Prix Goncourt for Three Strong Women, a novel following three women whose lives…

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