My Life as a Russian Novel - Softcover

Carrère, Emmanuel

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1784705810 ISBN 13: 9781784705817

Publisher: Vintage, 2018

Synopsis

‘As a writer, Carrère is straight berserk’ Junot Díaz

In this non-fiction novel – road trip, confession, and erotic tour de force – Emmanuel Carrère pursues two consuming obsessions: the disappearance of his grandfather amid suspicions that he was a Nazi collaborator in the Second World War; and a violently passionate affair with a woman that he loves but which ends in destruction. Moving between Paris and Kotelnich, a grisly post-Soviet town, Carrère weaves his story into a travelogue of a journey inward, travelling fearlessly into the depths of his tortured psyche.

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Review:

"An elegant, emotional self-examination, full of bleak but truthful insights about the lies and compromises of love" (The Times)

"This book is very much at the crossroads of writing-as-therapy and the sort of fact-fiction blurring that fans of WG Sebald and Geoff Dyer will appreciate" (Independent)

"Carrère brings the whole to sharp focus with a few jarring truths and a moment of great beauty. You leave its last pages with a deep appreciation for life" (Washington Post)

"Emmanuel Carrère has written a work of infinite sorrow, infernal jealousy, and violent passion. My Life as a Russian Novel dazzles" (Le Monde)

"Brims with ideas and incidents... Gripping and fascinating, an intimate portrait of a complicated man's inner life and his struggles to find some kind of happiness and fulfilment" (Guardian)

"A captivating memoir that reads like a literary erotic-suspense novel" (Boston Globe)

"As a writer, Carrère is straight berserk; as a storyteller he is so freakishly talented, so unassuming in grace and power that you only realize the hold he's got on your when you attempt to pull away" (Junot Díaz)

"He's the best kind of writer, not just a bestseller but a man who is not afraid to leave the comfort zone of his desk, go out into the world, take risks, and get his shoes dirty" (Observer)

"Excoriating and forcefully intelligent" (Nat Segnit Times Literary Supplement)

Book Description:

Road trip, confession and erotic tour de force My Life as a Russian Novel is a coruscating non-fiction novel from the Sunday Times-bestselling, critically acclaimed author of The Adversary

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1784705810
• ISBN 13: 9781784705817
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288