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Knopf
October 2023
On Sale: October 17, 2023
240 pages
ISBN: 0593534247
EAN: 9780593534243
Kindle: B0BSKQ7W4C
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From the best-selling author of Three Strong
Women comes a thrilling novel about a triple homicide that
dredges up unsettling memories from a lawyer’s
childhood.
The heroine of Marie
NDiaye’s new novel is Maître Susane, a quiet
middle-aged lawyer, living a modest existence in Bordeaux,
known to all as a consummate and unflappable
professional. But when Gilles Principaux shows up at
her office asking her to defend his wife, who is accused of
a horrific crime, Maître Susane begins to crack.
She seems to remember having been alone with him
in her youth for a significant event, one her mind obsesses
over but can’t quite reconstruct. Who is this Gilles
Principaux? And why would he come to her, a run-of-the-mill
lawyer, for such an important trial?
While
this mystery preoccupies Maître Susane, at home
she is increasingly concerned about Sharon, her
faithful but peculiar housekeeper. Sharon arrived from
Mauritius with her husband and children, and she lacks legal
residency in France. And while Maître Susane has
generously offered Sharon her professional services,
the housekeeper always finds ways to evade her,
claiming the marriage certificate Maître Susane
requires is being held hostage. Is Sharon being honest
with Maître Susane, or is something more sinister
going on?
Told in a slow seethe recalling the
short novels of Elena Ferrante and the psychological
richness of Patricia Highsmith’s work, Vengeance Is
Mine is a dreamlike portrait of a woman afflicted by failing
memories and a tortured uncertainty about her own past that
threatens to become her undoing.
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