Self-Portrait in Green: 10th Anniversary Edition (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781949641486)

Who are the green women? They are powerful (one is a disciplinarian teacher). They are mysterious (one haunts a house like a ghost). They are seductive (one marries her best friend's father). And they are unbearably personal (one is the author's own mother).

They are all aspects of their creator: Marie NDiaye, an author celebrated worldwide as one of France's leading writers. Here, in her own skewed take on the memoir, NDiaye combs through all the menacing, beguiling, and revelatory memories submerged beneath the consciousness of a singular literary talent. Mysterious, honest, and unabashedly innovative, NDiaye's self-portrait forces us all to ask questions--about what we repress, how we discover those things, and how those obsessions become us.

This 10^th anniversary hardcover edition of Marie NDiaye's genre-defying classic restores photographs that appeared in the original French edition alongside Jordan Stump's dazzling translation, revealing in English, at last, the complete vision of NDiaye's influential masterpiece.

Author: Marie Ndiaye
ISBN-10: 1949641481
ISBN-13: 9781949641486
Publisher: Two Lines Press
Language: English
Published: 09/12/2023
Pages: 110
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.60lbs
Size: 8.10h x 5.60w x 0.50d

Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 07/24/2023
Kirkus Reviews 09/01/2023