by Marie NDiaye · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070116232
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«La Cheffe, roman d'une cuisinière» is the novel by Marie NDiaye, published by Gallimard in paperback (275 pages, in French).
The narrator, assistant and unrequited lover of the Cheffe, reconstructs the life of a cook of humble origins with an extraordinary gift: she dreams recipes, pursues flavors and turns cooking into a spiritual adventure. She opens her own restaurant and achieves glory, but her secretiveness and her relationship with her daughter threaten everything she has built.
Originally published in 2016, it is part of Gallimard's Blanche collection.
For readers of contemporary literary fiction and stories where cooking, talent and family secrets are at the heart of the plot.
Marie NDiaye is a French novelist, playwright and screenwriter. She published her first novel, Quant au riche avenir, when she was 17. She won the Prix Goncourt in 2009 for her novel Trois femmes puissantes. Her play Papa doit manger is the sole play by a living female writer to be part of the repertoire of the Comédie française. She co-wrote the screenplay for the 2022 legal drama Saint Omer alongside its director Alice Diop, and Amrita David. In September 2022, the film was selected as France's official selection for Best International Film at the 95th Academy Awards. The English translation of her novel The Witch, by Jordan Stump, was published in 2026 and was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize.
