ARGONAUT BOOKS

The Witch is Marie NDiaye at her most dazzling. In this simple, startlingly powerful novel, NDiaye lays out her central themes: familial secrets, power, shame and liberation. NDiaye is one of the greats - her novels are mesmerizing, wholly singular, completely unforgettableKatie Kitamura, author of AuditionFamily alienation meets suburban witchcraft in this short, fantastical work from one of France's greatest living novelists, which is finally getting an English translation nearly 30 years after it appeared in France. Lucie, a middling witch, is instructing her two daughters in the family's m...Read More