Marie NDiaye Vengeance Is Mine-复仇属于我

在这个优雅、层次分明的社会分层故事中，玛丽·恩迪亚耶带我们穿过波尔多迷宫般的小巷、后街和优雅的门厅。这是一部心理惊悚小说，讲述了阶级冲突的故事。故事始于一次紧张的办公室访问。苏珊娜的律师事务所接待了一个名叫吉尔斯·普林西普的客户，他的妻子马琳因为将自己的三个小孩淹死在浴缸中而入狱。但苏珊娜认识吉尔斯，他是一个富裕家庭的儿子，曾雇用她的母亲做帮佣。

悬念为《复仇属于我》提供了前进的动力。当苏珊娜走过街道的拐角和她自己思想的角落时，我们害怕她可能记得关于吉尔斯的事。在她同意接手马琳·普林西普的案子后，她自己故事中的空白开始被填补。

书名：Vengeance Is Mine《复仇属于我》

作者：Marie NDiaye, Jordan Stump(Translator)

简介：From the best-selling author of Three Strong Women comes a thrilling novel about a triple homicide that dredges up unsettling memories from a lawyer's childhood

The heroine of Marie NDiaye's new novel is a quiet middle-aged lawyer, living a modest existence in Bordeaux. She has been so effectively consumed by her job she is known to all simply as Maître Susane. But when Gilles Principaux shows up at her office asking her to defend his wife, who is accused of a horrific crime, Maître Susane begins to crack.

She seems to remember having been alone with him in her youth for a significant event, one her mind obsesses over but can't quite reconstruct. Who is this Gilles Principaux? And why would he come to her, a run-of-the-mill lawyer, for the most important trial of his life?

While this mystery preoccupies Maître Susane, at home she is greeted by Sharon, her faithful but peculiar housekeeper. Sharon arrived from Mauritius with her husband and children, and she lacks legal residency in France. And while Maître Susane has generously offered Sharon her professional services, the young maid always finds ways to evade her, claiming the marriage certificate Maître Susane requires is being held hostage. Is Sharon being honest with Maître Susane, or is something more sinister going on?

Told in a slow seethe recalling the short novels of Elena Ferrante and the psychological richness of Patricia Highsmith's work, Vengeance Is Mine is a dreamlike portrait of a woman afflicted by failing memories, tortured uncertainty, and an unreliability that frightens her.