Who are the green women? They are powerful (one is a disciplinarian teacher).
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..
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.
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.
They are all aspects of their creator: Marie NDiaye, an author celebrated worldwide as one of France\'s leading writers.
And they are unbearably personal (one is the author\'s own mother).
They are seductive (one marries her best friend\'s father).
They are mysterious (one haunts a house like a ghost).
Who are the green women? They are powerful (one is a disciplinarian teacher)
