The witch : a novel / Marie NDiaye ; translated from the French by Jordan Stump.
"Lucie comes from a long line of witches, with powers passed down from mother to daughter. Many of them have hidden or repressed their gifts to appease disgusted or fearful men. But against the wishes of her controlling husband, Lucie initiates her twins into their family's peculiar womanhood when they reach the age of twelve. In a few short months, Maud and Lise are crying rich crimson tears, their powers quickly becoming more potent than their mother's, opening them to liberation and euphoria beyond what Lucie and her foremothers ever considered. Equal parts dreamlike and disquieting, The Witch tells a tale as old as time, with a dark twist: Without looking back, children fly the nest, laying bare the tenuous threads of family that have long threatened to snap. With simmering tension and increasing panic, NDiaye's latest novel in English captures the terror and precarity of motherhood and marriage, and the uncertainty of slowly realizing that your progeny are more dangerous--to the world and to your heart--and freer than you ever could have dreamed." -- Back cover.
Record details
- ISBN: 9798217006809
- Physical Description: 130 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition: First Vintage Books edition.
- Publisher: New York, NY : Vintage Books, a division of Penguin Random House LLC, 2026.
- Copyright: ©2026
Content descriptions
- General Note:
- Originally published in French as La Sorcière by Les Éditions de Minuit .
- Language Note:
- Text in English, translated from French.
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