As a writer, Carrère is straight berserk Junot DíazIn 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.
Emmanuel Carrère, novelist, filmmaker, journalist, and biographer, is the award-winning internationally renowned author ofThe Adversary(aSunday Timesbestseller andNew York TimesNotable Book, translated into twenty-three languages),Lives Other Than My Own,My Life as a Russian Novel,Class Trip,Limonov(winner of the 2011 Prix Renaudot),The Mustacheand, most recently,The Kingdom.