by Marie NDiaye · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782707320971
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«Rosie Carpe» is the novel by Marie NDiaye published by Les Éditions de Minuit in paperback, in French, with 393 pages.
Rosie Carpe grows up in Brive-la-Gaillarde with her brother Lazare; as an adult she lives in Antony, works and raises her son Titi, and eventually arrives in Guadeloupe. The novel explores identity, family ties and the loss of control over one's own life, through a protagonist who becomes strange to herself.
The novel won the Prix Femina in 2001; this French paperback edition, published by Minuit in 2009, has 393 pages.
For readers of contemporary French fiction and literary fiction focused on character psychology and family 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.
