Emmanuel Carrere - Böcker

I januari 2015, på höjden av litterär framgång och familjelycka, inleder Emmanuel Carrère en tio dagar lång meditativ retreat på landsbygden i Frankrike på jakt efter klarhet och material för sin nästa bok, som han tror kommer att bli en subtil oc...

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Himmelriket berättar historien om de första kristna kring slutet av det första århundrandet efter Kristi födelse. Den berättar en historia från kejsar Tiberius regeringstid om hur huvudsakligen två män, Paulus och Lukas, förvandlar en liten judisk...

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A TIMES, NEW STATESMAN and WASHINGTON POST Book of the Year 'Absolutely gripping' GUARDIAN 'A marvel' SUNDAY TIMES 'Magisterial' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 'Extraordinary and generous' WASHINGTON POST 'A gripping testimony of terror and loss' OBSERVER A mov...

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Med några månaders mellanrum fick livet mig att bevittna de två saker som skrämmer mig mest av allt: ett barn som dör från sina föräldrar och en ung kvinna som dör från sina barn och sin make. Någon sa då till mig: du som är författare, varför int...

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This is a book about yoga. Or at least, it was. January 2015. High on literary success and familial bliss, Emmanuel Carrère embarks on a rigorous ten-day meditative retreat in rural France in search of clarity and material for his next book, which...

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'This is a brilliant, shocking book ... also witty, painfully self-critical and humane ... it is a work of great literature' Tim Whitmarsh, Guardian 'The Kingdom, already a huge bestseller in France, is thrilling, magnificent and strange' Bryan Ap...

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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" tr...

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FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE ADVERSARY One morning, a man shaves off his long-worn moustache, hoping to amuse his wife and friends. But when nobody notices, or pretends not to have noticed, what started out as a simple trick turns to terror....

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"e;The amazing, improbable life of [the] Ukrainian writer, adventurer and would-be revolutionary . . . Carrere has turned it into an equally spectacular book."e; -Michael Dirda, The Washington PostThis is how Emmanuel Carrere, the magnetic...

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A sweeping fictional account of the early Christians, whose unlikely beliefs conquered the worldGripped by the tale of a Messiah whose blood we drink and body we eat, the genre-defying author Emmanuel Carrere revisits the story of the early Church...

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A selection of the best short work by France's greatest living nonfiction writer A New York Times Notable Books of 2020 No one writes nonfiction like Emmanuel Carrere. Although he takes cues from such literary heroes as Truman Capote and Janet Mal...

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Read this an expansive meditation on death, grief and the limtless reach of the human spirit from the bestselling author of The Adversary 'Compelling? Carrère has the gift of speaking simply and directly of the essentials' Evening Standard Beset b...

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A TIMES, NEW STATESMAN and WASHINGTON POST Book of the Year 'Absolutely gripping' GUARDIAN 'A marvel' SUNDAY TIMES 'Magisterial' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 'Extraordinary and generous' WASHINGTON POST 'A gripping testimony of terror and loss' OBSERVER A mov...

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**SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER** On the Saturday morning of January 9, 1993, while Jean Claude Romand was killing his wife and children, I was with mine in a parent-teacher meeting? With these chilling first words, acclaimed master of psychological sus...

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'As a writer, Carrère is straight berserk' Junot Díaz In 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...

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Read the definitive essay collection from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Adversary, dubbed 'France's greatest writer of non-fiction' (New York Times) 'The most exciting living writer' Karl Ove Knausgaard Over the course of his career, ...

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