num_pages: 296
description: Marie NDiaye has long been celebrated for her unrivaled ability to make us see just how little we understand about ourselves. My Heart Hemmed In is her most powerful statement on the hidden selves that we rarely glimpseand are often shocked by.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 Anges stomach and as Nadia fights to save her husbands life their hideous neighbor Nogeta man everyone insists is a famous authorinexplicably imposes his care upon them. While Noget fattens them with ever richer foods Nadia embarks on a nightmarish visit to her ex-husband and estranged sonis she abandoning Ange or revisiting old grievances in an attempt to save him?Conjuring an atmosphere of paranoia and menace My Heart Hemmed In creates a bizarre foggy world where strange coincidences harsh cruelty and constantly shifting relationships all seem part of some shadowy truth. Surreal allegorical and psychologically acute My Heart Hemmed In shows a masterful author giving her readers her most complex and compelling world yet.
language: English
title: My Heart Hemmed In
publisher: Two Lines Press