Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 After the Second World War, Angus Sinclair was born in 1945. His family lived in Glasgow, and his father had been getting more and more tired over the course of the last few months, until he died of chronic leukaemia two years later. Angus was bullied in school for being the smallest and slowest kid in class. #2 When he became a teenager, he began to go through the usual changes that puberty brought, but when his sexual appetites began to develop, they had no healthy outlet. He became fixated on sex as a cure-all for his unhappy and unsatisfying life. #3 Angus began committing crimes at the age of 13, and while the police would occasionally catch him and give him a beating, he was never charged or convicted for any of his crimes. He eventually got a job as a van boy and began contributing to the household income. #4 Angus was a teenager who had committed a disgusting crime. He was sentenced to three years on parole, with any further offences resulting in jail time. He returned home, returned to his job, and returned to the strange equilibrium of his solitary life.

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 There were sodomites in the navy who could be persuaded to join him for no price other than the promise of his predatory grin. He liked them the most because they had the most to lose if even a whisper of what he planned on doing to them got out. #2 Carl was a creature of opportunity. He spent his life avoiding attention, hunching his shoulders to look smaller, and keeping a blank expression on his face when people insulted him. He knew the secret behind the world's veil: he didn't want to draw attention to himself. #3 Carl hired the arrogant boy to sail for him the next day. He was a real sailor, but his friends were not. They would embarrass him in front of his fancy friends. #4 Carl took pleasure in blinding the boy with the flare of a readily offered match. He guided the boy carefully along the cobbles, steering him away from any prying eyes or distractions. The Akista would set sail as Carl had said in the bar. There was no lie in that.

'NDiaye is a hypnotic storyteller with an unflinching understanding of the rock-bottom reality of most people's life.' New York Times ' One of France's most exciting prose stylists.' The Guardian. Obsessed by her encounters with the mysterious green women, and haunted by the Garonne River, a nameless narrator seeks them out in La Roele, Paris, Marseille, and Ouagadougou. Each encounter reveals different aspects of the women; real or imagined, dead or alive, seductive or suicidal, driving the narrator deeper into her obsession, in this unsettling exploration of identity, memory and paranoia. Self Portrait in Green is the multi-prize winning, Marie NDiaye's brilliant subversion of the memoir. Written in diary entries, with lyrical prose and dreamlike imagery, we start with and return to the river, which mirrors the narrative by posing more questions than it answers.

"The prequel to the award-winning and bestselling video game franchise"--Cover.