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Carr&#232;re 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. &#160;&#8212; Washington Post &#160;&#8220;Even by the high standards set by his earlier books, Emmanuel Carr&#232;re&#8217;s My Life as A Russian Novel is a masterpiece, a searingly candid, breathtakingly beautiful exploration of territories both far and near: Russia and France; the past and the present; brutality and love; the inscrutable desires of the other and the often equally unfathomable motivations of the self. This is an unforgettable book from the most original, exciting, and important figure in contemporary French literature.&#8221;<br>&#8212;Caroline Weber, author of Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution &#160;&#8220;Emmanuel Carr&#232;re has written a work of infinite sorrow, infernal jealousy, and violent passion. My Life as a Russian Novel dazzles. &#8220;<br>&#8212; Le Monde &#160

Carrere 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 An elegant, emotional self-examination, full of bleak but truthful insights about the lies and compromises of love. -- The Times (UK) 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. -- The Guardian ( UK) Fascinating, troubling... Mesmerizing. -- The Times (UK) Lucid and compelling... Carrere pushes candor to quite pitiless extremes. 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. -- The Independent (UK) Even by the high standards set by his earlier books, Emmanuel Carrere's My Life as A Russian Novel is a masterpiece, a searingly candid, breathtakingly beautiful exp

Carrere 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 An elegant, emotional self-examination, full of bleak but truthful insights about the lies and compromises of love. -- The Times (UK) 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. -- The Guardian ( UK) Fascinating, troubling... Mesmerizing. -- The Times (UK) Lucid and compelling... Carrere pushes candor to quite pitiless extremes. 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. -- The Independent (UK) Even by the high standards set by his earlier books, Emmanuel Carrere's My Life as A Russian Novel is a masterpiece, a searingly candid, breathtakingly beautiful exploration of territories both far and near: Russia and France; the past and the present; brutality and love; the inscrutable desires of the other and the often equally unfathomable motivations of the self. This is an unforgettable book from the most original, exciting, and important figure in contemporary French literature. <br>--Caroline Weber, author of Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution Emmanuel Carrere has written a work of infinite sorrow, infernal jealousy, and violent passion. My Life as a Russian Novel dazzles. <br>-- Le Monde An exceptional book in which the adversary, this time, is Carrere himself, revealed in a lucid, unflinching analysis.... Remarkable. <br>-- Le Figaro <br>

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