16:I[912796,["/_next/static/chunks/3ksy27nhwtcsi.js","/_next/static/chunks/114vt4r3tlk52.js","/_next/static/chunks/03yg5_-ej996q.js","/_next/static/chunks/1ntn7efqc-iiw.js","/_next/static/chunks/0on_xuhntf_4g.js","/_next/static/chunks/1d-mx4sv1etkb.js","/_next/static/chunks/19kxi53__1dnp.js","/_next/static/chunks/3n5hceuol-bzn.js","/_next/static/chunks/1nh08l-hzkiw2.js","/_next/static/chunks/3c9uqtb6-uibx.js","/_next/static/chunks/2wjy9rx6r_8g9.js","/_next/static/chunks/3tf4fgqz-p-xq.js","/_next/static/chunks/1xlttesgwojbx.js","/_next/static/chunks/07qmgwg756cfc.js"],"default"] 15:T51c,{"@context":"https://schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Marie Ndiaye","url":"https://booksmandala.com/author/marie-ndiaye","description":"Browse books by Marie Ndiaye at Books Mandala, Nepal's largest online bookstore.","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://booksmandala.com/author/marie-ndiaye"}},{"@type":"ItemList","name":"Books by Marie Ndiaye","numberOfItems":2,"itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@type":"Book","@id":"https://booksmandala.com/books/the-witch-89113","name":"The Witch","url":"https://booksmandala.com/books/the-witch-89113","image":"https://books.bizmandala.com/media/books/9781529449389/9781529449389-314.webp","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Marie Ndiaye"},"offers":{"@type":"Offer","priceCurrency":"NPR","price":638,"availability":"https://schema.org/InStock"}}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@type":"Book","@id":"https://booksmandala.com/books/three-strong-women-24785","name":"Three Strong Women","url":"https://booksmandala.com/books/three-strong-women-24785","image":"https://books.bizmandala.com/media/books/9780857051073/image_7qs7X3S_7fxU6Tl.webp","author":{"@type":"Person","name":"Marie Ndiaye"},"offers":{"@type":"Offer","priceCurrency":"NPR","price":560,"availability":"https://schema.org/InStock"}}}]}]}17:T54d,

In a small, sleepy town, a mediocre witch, in a mediocre marriage, tries to pass on her gifts to her twin daughters, who, it becomes immediately apparent, have skills far beyond her own.

Lucie comes from a long line of witches, powers passed down from mother to daughter. Her own mom was formidable in her powers, but ashamed of her magic. Perhaps as a result, Lucie's own gift is weak: she can see into the future, sometimes-but more often, she can only see the present of some other location. Not very useful. And the worst part? All she can ever see are insignificant details - a scrap of outfit, the colour of the sky. Lucie's own children are initiated into their family's peculiar womanhood when they reach twelve years of age, and in a few short months, Maud and Lise are crying the curious tears of blood that denote their magical powers. Having learned, they take off quickly and fly the nest. Literally.

Witty, dreamlike, vaguely unsettling, and utterly enchanting (pun intended), The Witch brings the mysteries of womanhood and motherhood into sharp relief and leaves us teetering on the edge, unbalanced by questions as seemingly unbreakable relationships break down left and right.

Who is to blame for family failures? And how can you - can you? - build a nest that no one wants to fly?

18:T4c0,

From the acclaimed literary celebrity--the first black woman ever to win the Prix Goncourt--a harrowing and beautiful novel of the travails of West African immigrants in France, giving voice as never before to Europe's most unwanted. This is the story of three women who say no: Norah, a French-born lawyer who finds herself in Senegal, summoned by her estranged tyrannical father to save another victim of his paternity; Fanta, who leaves a contented life as a teacher in Dakar to follow her white French boyfriend back to France, where his depression and dislocation poison everything; and Khady, a penniless widow put out by her husband's family with nothing but the name of a distant cousin (the aforementioned Fanta) in France (a place she can scarcely conceive). As these three lives intertwine, each woman manage