Jennifer Wilson writes about “Vengeance Is Mine,” a psychological thriller written by the French author Marie NDiaye.
I learned about the Rue de Grenelle incident after Googling “France, January 5, 2019,” the date on which “Vengeance Is Mine,” the new novel by the French writer Marie NDiaye, begins. NDiaye’s latest tale, a story of class conflict embedded within a psychological thriller, is scattered with interpretive hints, clues to the crimes of contemporary French society. Though it starts with a date on the calendar, the story works like a map.
She’s had only a handful of clients, including Sharon, whose immigration case she has taken pro bono, and someone who wants his name changed, believing it to be that “of a slave trader.” Though her apartment, in central Bordeaux, is “grand in its appointments” with “herringbone parquet floors, seventeenth-century fireplace, tall windows with little panes,” it is barely large enough for one person. To her parents’ shame, she drives an old low-cost car.
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