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.
General
Imprint: |
University of Nebraska Press
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Country of origin: |
United States |
Series: |
European Women Writers |
Release date: |
November 2004 |
First published: |
November 2004 |
Authors: |
Marie NDiaye
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Translators: |
Tamsin Black
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Dimensions: |
203 x 146 x 23mm (L x W x T) |
Format: |
Hardcover - Cloth over boards / Cloth over boards / Cloth over boards
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Pages: |
310 |
ISBN-13: |
978-0-8032-3348-5 |
Categories: |
Books >
Fiction >
General & literary fiction >
Modern fiction
|
LSN: |
0-8032-3348-5 |
Barcode: |
9780803233485 |
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