by Marie Ndiaye · Giunti · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788809786110
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«Ladivine» is the novel by Marie NDiaye, published by Giunti in paperback (400 pages, in Italian).
Clarisse Rivière leads a bourgeois life with her husband and daughter, but each month she secretly visits her mother Ladivine in a working-class district of Bordeaux. Clarisse, whose real name is Malinka, disowns her origins; her lies begin to crumble, and it will be her daughter who undertakes a journey into the grandmother's past.
Italian edition from the Scrittori Giunti collection, translated by Antonella Conti.
For readers of contemporary fiction interested in family dramas, identity, and the bonds between mothers and daughters.
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.
