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Rosie Carpe
Marie Ndiaye
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paperback. When pregnant Rosie Carpe, her fatherless five-years-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? Translator(s): Black, Tamsin. Series: European Women Writers. Num Pages: 310 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 213 x 146 x 18. Weight in Grams: 396.
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?
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?
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
310
Condition
New
Series
European Women Writers
Number of Pages
310
Place of Publication
Lincoln, United States
ISBN
9780803283831
SKU
V9780803283831
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About Marie Ndiaye
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.
Reviews for Rosie Carpe
http://nebraskapress.typepad.com/university_of_nebraska_pr/2009/11/unp-author-winner-of-frances-top-literary-award.html|“NDiaye’s Creative style turns this depressing yet fascinating novel into 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