by Marie NDiaye · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070774579
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«Mon cœur à l'étroit» is the novel by Marie NDiaye, published by Gallimard in paperback (298 pages, in French).
Nadia and her husband Ange, middle-aged teachers, know they are despised by those around them. When Ange suffers a wound to his stomach, their neighbor Noget imposes himself to care for them and feeds them increasingly rich meals. Nadia, meanwhile, visits her ex-husband and her estranged son: abandonment or settling old scores?
Published in 2007, it is part of Gallimard's nrf collection.
For readers of contemporary French fiction interested in the tensions of everyday life and couple relationships.
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.
