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The Three Fates
The three fates--now three Vietnamese "princesses" in France--were spirited away as little children by their powerful grandmother when Saigon fell to the communists. Now the two sisters and their cousin await the arrival of their father and uncle, still marooned in his little blue house in the old country. "Leave King Lear alone, I'd told my cousins," our principal narrator (an intellectual who has lost a hand) informs us: "They had neglected him for twenty years and now they were conspiring like a pair of Cordelias to bestow one last joy on the old monarch: he hadn't asked for it." From a luxurious home in the French countryside, his two daughters (the elder, very pregnant and restlessly cooking and eating, kept company by her long-legged and icy younger sister) plot to drag their father halfway around the world - away from his poverty and from his only friend and the grilled eels they happily devour together - to flaunt their success. Scathingly unsentimental, The Three Fates transposes Shakespearean tragedy into a contemporary idiom and a decidedly different culture. A sharply vivacious book about "the bitch of fate," The Three Fates--like a witches' pot on the boil--brews up from displaced lives a darkly funny and agitated concatenation.
Book Details
- Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
- Publish Date: Jun 29th, 2010
- Pages: 176
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.90in - 5.10in - 0.60in - 0.40lb
- EAN: 9780811216104
- Categories: • Literary• Women
About the Author
Lê, Linda: - Linda Le was born in Dalat, South Vietnam in 1963, and moved to France with her mother, grandmother, and three sisters in 1977. One of the most celebrated authors in Paris, she has published a dozen books.
Polizzotti, Mark: - Mark Polizzotti is a prize-winning translator, and the author of eight books, including Revolution of the Mind: A Life of André Breton. His translations include works by Jean Echenoz, Paul Virilio, Jean Baudrillard, Raymond Roussel, Maurice Roche, Gustave Flaubert, Jen Senac, and the Surrealists.
Praise for this book
Lê's intensity is the real thing and frequently poetic.-- "Publishers Weekly"
Lê offers proof that alienation, in the right hands, can be exquisite.-- "The New York Times Book Review"
The Three Fates is a shimmering, twilit, fabulous crossing [with] a spectacular talent for caustic and cruel, sadistic and infinitely exact portraits. Properly amazing, colorful, bewitching, [and] irresistibly funny.-- "Le Monde"