{"product_id":"the-witch-9798217006809","title":"The Witch","description":"\u003cb\u003eLONGLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eThe Witch \u003c\/i\u003eis 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 unforgettable.\"--Katie Kitamura, author of \u003ci\u003eAudition\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn a small French town, a mediocre witch trapped in a cruel marriage cries watery tears of blood as she passes on her gifts to her twin daughters, who soon must make a choice: stay close to the nest and the mother who nourished them, or soar away from the dead-end claustrophobia their selfish father has imposed? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLucie 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eEqual parts dreamlike and disquieting, \u003ci\u003eThe Witch\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMARIE NDIAYE \u003c\/b\u003ewas born in Pithiviers, France. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eRosie Carpe\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Prix Femina, and of \u003ci\u003eThree Strong Women\u003c\/i\u003e, winner of the Prix Goncourt. Her recent novel, \u003ci\u003eVengeance is Mine\u003c\/i\u003e, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. She is also the recipient of the Gold Medal in the Arts from the Kennedy Center International Committee on the Arts. She lives in Paris. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTranslated by Jordan Stump.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52160429785362,"sku":"9798217006809","price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_c42a2554-31e4-4e8d-a74a-0dc97b756483.jpg?v=1775060296","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-witch-9798217006809","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}