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When pregnant Rosie Carpe, her fatherless five-year-old son in tow, arrives in Guadeloupe looking for her elusive brother, Lazare, the world already seems a plenty confusing place. Could the man who comes to meet her, an elegant black man calling himself Lagrand, actually be her disheveled white brother? Are her parents, who abandoned her in Paris, rediscovering themselves in an outrageous second youth of outlandish affairs, or have they simply lost their minds? And does Rosie have a hope of slipping the sticky grasp of her former employer and seducer, who moonlights as a video pornographer?
If it seems unlikely that the feckless Lazare, missing for five years as he followed his own twisted path, might help, or that carnivalesque Guadeloupe, where murder and mayhem are the natural outcomes of “business ventures,” might be the place for Rosie to find peace, then Marie NDiaye may have a few surprises in store for her reader. Amid the blurring boundaries and shifting values, the indistinct realities and confusing certainties of Rosie Carpe, a love story unfolds, and all that is ambiguous and tenuous–in short, all of Rosie’s world–is underpinned with a measure of tenderness.
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Marie NDiaye, winner of the Prix Goncourt in 2009, is the author of seven novels and lives in France. Her novel Rosie Carpe was published in France where it won the Prix Femina in 2001. Tamsin Black is a freelance translator and most recently translated Sylvie Matton’s Rembrandt’s Whore.
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“Fascinating . . . a page-turner. The strange characters, many of whom are described as having bizarre, transparent eyes, seem somehow to come to life. A sense of unreality, intensified by a persistent yellow hue, bathes and enhances the entire work.”—Jayne R. Boisvert, Multicultural Review (Jayne R. Boisvert Multicultural Review)
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- PublisherMINUIT
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 2707317403
- ISBN 13 9782707317407
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages344
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Book Description Paperback. Condition: NEUF. Prix Fémina 2001 - La vie de Rosie Carpe commence à Brive-la-Gaillarde, entre son frère Lazare et ses deux parents. Carpe qui sont encore, alors, dépourvus de toute espèce de fantaisie vénéneuse. Rosie conservera de Brive un souvenir confus et voilé de jaune, tandis que, pour son frère Lazare, le bonheur à Brive-la-Gaillarde gardera les couleurs d'un magnolia dont il est le seul à se rappeler la splendeur. Ensuite, à Anthony, Rosie Carpe est adulte. Elle met au monde Titi, travaille, et doucement chavire. Quand Rosie Carpe débarque en Guadeloupe, elle a perdu depuis longtemps la maîtrise de ce qu'elle fait. Et tout ce qui lui arrive, enfant ou désastres, concerne tout aussi bien quelqu'un qui n'est peut-être pas elle. - Nombre de page(s) : 338 p. - Poids : 0g - Langue : fre - Genre : Littérature française Romans Nouvelles Correspondance. Seller Inventory # N9782707317407
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