Berlin where she sends us a new blow Three powerful women book

For the civil State, Marie Ndiaye has emerged, in 1967 in Pithiviers in Central region. But the center of what world Born to a father of Senegalese origin and a French mother who elevated him only, the young woman has discovered Africa at the age of twenty-two years, while she had already published a first novel "about the rich future" at the prestigious midnight Editions. It was then only eighteen, but could already augurer of his "rich future" in literature - what came confirm novels also that successful "The witch" in 1996 and "Rosie Carpe" prix Femina in 2001. Today, Marie Ndiaye lives in Berlin with her husband, the writer Jean-Yves Cendrey, and her three children. Berlin where she sends us a new blow, "Three powerful women" book.

As women who have inspired its title, the novel is powerful, disruptive, subversive. Through the fate of Norah, Fanta and Khady, Marie Ndiaye questioned the complex ties between the France and Africa. Norah, young lawyer, agreed to answer the call of his father, who begged the come see in Senegal. The man fled France thirty years earlier, by removing his only son, Sony, five years old, leaving behind him, his wife and daughters. Yesterday cruel and tyrannical, living luxuriously in a small dedicated court it is longer than the shadow of himself, overwhelmed by the weight of a secret. Sony is in prison for an unspeakable crime and his father implores Norah defend despite everything.

Loss of benchmarks

In the second story, following the lapse of a mixed couple, Fanta and Rudy. They met in Africa, are both professors. They dream of a bright future where Rudy comes so far in the hands with a student for some mysterious reason. Council of discipline, sanction, back in France and start a spiral of failure, which will see specialist gloss of Rutebeuf aiming to sell custom kitchens, while his wife wrong his boredom with his boss. As the story unfolds, we discover what fault paternal Rudy agrees to atone as well. In the latter text, Khady Demba, young widow rejected by her in-laws, embarks on a tragic journey through Africa in a fantasy Europe destination.

In its same form, the book, organized into three fragments of uneven length, is deliberately confusing. Moving linear developments, "Three powerful women" lessen the conventional fiction structure. A choice to reveal stronger still the fragmentation of the fates, accelerate the loss of the benchmarks and accentuate the brutality of the return of the deported. The language which does not hesitate to return to itself of micromanaging to better flush out the unspoken, guilty silences, cowardice, small or large, individual or collective. It calls to lift the yoke of lead from the secrets buried in the heart of Africa.

To increase still disorder, Marie Ndiaye took the party, risked leaving his accounts outstanding, simply flanked by a brief counterpoint. It thus gives them the opportunity to interact; It is also a way to deny the ease of a fall or a reassuring morality. And to compel the reader to write himself into the margins of the book, which will remain open for ever. For the haunt.