by Marie NDiaye · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9782072977220
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«La vengeance m'appartient» is the novel by Marie NDiaye, published by Folio in paperback (272 pages, in French).
Lawyer Susane, based in Bordeaux, receives Gilles Principaux, who asks her to defend his wife, accused of an atrocious crime turned into a murky media case. Seeing him, Susane thinks she recognizes the young man who altered her life thirty-two years earlier, and her encounter with that past conditions both the trial and her memory.
The novel was nominated for the Prix du Livre Inter in 2021 and the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2023.
For readers of literary fiction and suspense seeking contemporary French literature.
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.
