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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 *

An elegant, emotional self-examination, full of bleak but truthful insights about the lies and compromises of love * The Times * 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 * Emmanuel Carrere 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 *

Excoriating and forcefully intelligent -- Nat Segnit * Times Literary Supplement * 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 * As a writer, Carrere 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 Diaz A captivating memoir that reads like a literary erotic-suspense novel * Boston Globe * 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 * Emmanuel Carrere has written a work of infinite sorrow, infernal jealousy, and violent passion. My Life as a Russian Novel dazzles * Le Monde * 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 * 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 * An elegant, emotional self-examination, full of bleak but truthful insights about the lies and compromises of love * The Times *

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Emmanuel Carr re is a novelist, journalist, screenwriter and film director. He is the award-winning, internationally renowned author of sixteen books, including V13, Limonov, The Kingdom, 97,196 Words, Yoga and the Sunday Times bestselling The Adversary.

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