Now a major motion picture starring Daniel Auteuil (Sade, Girl on the Bridge, Jean de Florette) directed by Nicole Garcia (Place Vendome)
Acclaimed master of psychological suspense, Emmanuel Carrere, whose fiction John Updike described as "stunning" (The New Yorker) explores the double life of a respectable doctor, eighteen years of lies, five murders, and the extremes to which ordinary people can go.
Now a major motion picture starring Daniel Auteuil (Sade, Girl on the Bridge, Jean de Florette) directed by Nicole Garcia (Place Vendo...
For his many devoted readers, Philip K. Dick is not only one of the "one of the most valiant psychological explorers of the 20th century" (The New York Times) but a source of divine revelation. In the riveting style that won accolades for The Adversary, Emmanuel Carrere follows Dick's strange odyssey from his traumatic beginnings in 1928, when his twin sister died in infancy, to his lonely end in 1982, beset by mystical visions of swirling pink light, three-eyed invaders, and messages from the Roman Empire. Drawing on interviews as well as unpublished sources, he vividly...
For his many devoted readers, Philip K. Dick is not only one of the "one of the most valiant psychological explorers of the 20th century" (The New ...
From the master of psychological suspense and the author of The Adversary comes "a work of infinite sorrow, infernal jealousy, and violent passion" (Le Monde). Set in Paris and Kotelnich, a small post-Soviet town, My Life as a Russian Novel traces Carrere's pursuit of two obsessions--the disappearance of his Russian grandfather and his erotic fascination with a woman he loves but cannot keep from destroying. In prose that is elegant and passionate, Carrere weaves the strands of his story into a travelogue of a journey inward. Road trip, confession, and erotic tour de...
From the master of psychological suspense and the author of The Adversary comes "a work of infinite sorrow, infernal jealousy, and violent p...
Eduard Limonow, spätestens seit der Gründung der Nationalbolschewistischen Partei eine der umstrittensten und widersprüchlichsten Figuren Russlands, lebt sein abenteuerliches Leben mit einer schwindelerregenden Intensität. Er hatte Sex mit unzähligen Männern und Frauen, verführte Minderjährige, wurde Familienvater, lebte als hungerleidender und partyfeiernder Dandy in den USA und in Paris, gründete eine Partei, kämpfte als Freiwilliger in diversen Kriegen, tötete und saß im Gefängnis. Seine politische Wandlung vollzog sich von extrem links nach extrem rechts bis hin zur...
Eduard Limonow, spätestens seit der Gründung der Nationalbolschewistischen Partei eine der umstrittensten und widersprüchlichsten Figuren Russlands...
Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times and The Guardian (London)
A thrilling page-turner that also happens to be the biography of one of Russia's most controversial figures
This is how Emmanuel Carrere, the magnetic journalist, novelist, filmmaker, and chameleon, describes his subject: "Limonov is not a fictional character. There. I know him. He has been a young punk in Ukraine, the idol of the Soviet underground; a bum, then a multimillionaire's butler in Manhattan; a fashionable writer in Paris; a lost soldier in the Balkans; and now,...
Named a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times and The Guardian (London)
