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"This special 10th-anniversary hardcover edition of Marie NDiaye's genre-defying classic restores photographs that appeared in the original French edition alongside Jordan Stump's dazzling translation, revealing in English, at last, the complete vision of NDiaye's influential mas...

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Main Author: NDiaye, Marie (Author)
Other Authors: Stump, Jordan, 1959- (Translator)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
French
Published: San Francisco, CA : Two Lines Press, [2023]
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Summary: "This special 10th-anniversary hardcover edition of Marie NDiaye's genre-defying classic restores photographs that appeared in the original French edition alongside Jordan Stump's dazzling translation, revealing in English, at last, the complete vision of NDiaye's influential masterpiece"--
Physical Description: 100 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
ISBN: 9781949641486
1949641481
Author Notes: Marie NDiaye was born in 1967 in Pithiviers, France. She is the author of around twenty novels, plays, collections of stories, and nonfiction books, which have been translated into numerous languages. She's received the Prix Femina and the Prix Goncourt, France's highest literary honor, and her plays are in the repertoire of the Comedie-Francaise.
Jordan Stump is a professor of French at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the author of two book-length studies of the writing of Raymond Queneau ( Naming and Unnaming and The Other Book ), and the translator of some thirty works of mostly contemporary French fiction, by such authors as Marie NDiaye, Scholastique Mukasonga, Eric Chevillard, and Marie Redonnet. His translation of Marie NDiaye's The Cheffe won the American Literary Translators' Association prize for prose in 2020.
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