Rosie Carpe

Marie NDiaye · 2001 CE · Novel · French · Contemporary

A young woman arrives in Guadeloupe with her small son in search of the brother who was to meet them, and finds herself sinking into a hostile, fevered world. NDiaye's novel, which won the Prix Femina, was her breakthrough and set the tone of unease that runs through her later fiction.

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