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Biographical note
Emmanuel Carrère is a novelist, journalist, screenwriter and film director. He is the award-winning, internationally renowned author of fifteen books, including My Life as a Russain Novel, Limonov, The Kingdom, 97,196 Words, Yoga and the Sunday Times bestselling The Adversary.<b>A superb collection of essays by Emmanuel Carrère, one of the best storytellers around</b>… When Carrère writes a story, he knows how to stir up powerful and conflicting emotions in his reader, which is one of the reasons he’s so good… <b>It’s the best book I’ve read for ages</b>.<b></b>
- William Leith, Evening Standard *Books of the Year*
<b>The most exciting living writer.</b>
- Karl Ove Knausgaard,
<b>Emmanuel Carrère</b><b> is known for the way he bends and breaks genres</b>… [he] is <b>the most celebrated writer of high-end nonfiction in France</b>… the core of Mr Carrère's talent is precisely that he brings readers into sympathetic contact with others, powerful and powerless, insiders and outsiders… It is <b>a masterful illusion</b>.
Economist
<b>Impossible not to fall in love with</b>…<b>Carrere is regarded as a superstar writer</b>… <b>it is a joy</b> to be reminded of all the wonderful things that [creative non-fiction] can do.
- Kathryn Hughes, Guardian
Emmanuel Carrère, a man fascinated by crime, eroticism and the oddities of human behaviour, is arguably <b>France’s most original living writer of non-fiction</b>… he creates reportage, that, with its insight and humanity, is closer to literature than journalism.
- Nick Rennison, Sunday Times