My Heart Hemmed In

"Marie NDiaye is a master of creating menacing, off-kilter worlds that speak to the truth of human experience."—Ayşegül Savaş, author of White on White

There is something very wrong with Nadia and her husband Ange, middle-aged provincial schoolteachers who slowly realize that they are despised by everyone around them. One day a savage wound appears in Ange's stomach, and as Nadia fights to save her husband's life their hideous neighbor Noget—a man everyone insists is a famous author—inexplic...