{"id":46889,"date":"2016-05-09T13:34:30","date_gmt":"2016-05-09T13:34:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=46889"},"modified":"2016-05-09T13:34:30","modified_gmt":"2016-05-09T13:34:30","slug":"ladivine-by-marie-ndiaye","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=46889","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Ladivine,\u2019 by Marie NDiaye"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u2018Ladivine,\u2019 by Marie NDiaye<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Book Review<\/a>
\nThe New York Times<\/a>
\n2016-05-05<\/p>\n

Patrick McGrath<\/strong><\/p>\n

LADIVINE<\/strong><\/a>
\nBy Marie NDiaye<\/a>
\nTranslated by Jordan Stump<\/a>
\n276 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. $26.95.<\/p>\n

Marie NDiaye<\/a> is the author of more than a dozen plays and works of fiction. Currently living in Berlin<\/a>, having left France<\/a> in 2009, by her own account in disgust at Nicolas Sarkozy\u2019s<\/a> election to the presidency, she is the daughter of a French mother and a Senegalese father. As yet, she is little known in this country, although at least four of her previous books \u2014 including \u201cThree Strong Women,\u201d which won France\u2019s prestigious Prix Goncourt<\/a>, and \u201cRosie Carpe,\u201d winner of the Prix Femina<\/a> \u2014 have been translated into English.<\/p>\n

NDiaye\u2019s new novel, \u201cLadivine<\/a>,\u201d has been elegantly translated by Jordan Stump<\/a>. It is a work of immense power and mystery, an account of four generations of women, the first of whom, Ladivine Sylla, immigrates from a tropical third-world country to France, where she works as a house cleaner. Her daughter, Malinka, is ashamed of her. As a teenager, Malinka heightens the natural pallor of her face with makeup in order to pass for white, and later she reinvents herself as Clarisse, finding a French husband and taking his name, becoming Clarisse Rivi\u00e8re. She visits her mother in secret, allowing no contact with either her husband or her daughter. This ambivalent relationship is one she both sustains and repudiates…<\/p>\n

Read the entire review here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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