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Emmanuel Carrère – författare
- Häftad, Svenska, 2022I 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 och possitiv introduktion till yoga. Men hans vistelse avbryts, och han förs tillbaka till verkligheten med en duns då han återvänder till ett kokande Paris i efterdyningarna av terrorattacken på Charlie Hebdo. Från och med nu börjar Carrères liv gå fel, liksom hans roman i vardande. Diagnostiserad som bipolär läggs han in på Sainte Annes psykiatriska sjukhus, där han blir kvar i fyra månader och utsätts för elchocksbehandling. Hans äktenskap håller på att falla samman, han är förkrossad över en nära väns död och jagas av en kärleksaffär med en mystisk försvunnen kvinna från sitt tidigare liv. Trängd till förnuftets gräns och tvingad att ifrågasätta sin identitet både som man och författare, börjar Carrère flänga omkring snarare än söka sig till meditationen. Han ger sig ut på en reportageresa till Irak för att undersöka Saddam Husseins mystiska "Blodkoran" och blir involverad i flyktingkrisen på den grekiska ön Leros, fortfarande hemsökt av existentiell ångest och en känsla av att något är fel, fruktansvärt fel, i världen och inte bara i hans eget huvud. Yoga är en bok som tar upp livets Yin och Yang: förhållandet mellan liv och död, begär och förtvivlan, närvaro och frånvaro, kamp och flykt. Det är en bok om en värld och en människa i kris, och om det överraskande i att meditation och att skriva om det kan vägleda oss genom livet. Med uppriktighet och rå humor utgör Yoga ett självporträtt av en man som kämpar för att leva med sig själv och andra. Emmanuel Carrère har under de senaste decennierna uteslutande ägnat sig åt ett dokumentärt skrivande, och har blivit en de viktigaste författarna inom det som kommit att betecknas autofiktion. På jakt efter sanningen i alla dess former frigör han sig från romanens regler. För honom är ingen litterär genre utom räckhåll: teologi, historieskrivning, rapportering och minne bland många andra smälter samman med den passion, nyfikenhet och intellekt som har gjort de Carrère till en av Frankrikes intressantaste och viktigaste litterära röster idag.
- Inbunden, Svenska, 2017
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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 sekt samlad kring sin korsfäste förkunnare som de menar är messias, till en religion som på tre sekel först undergräver hela det romerska riket, därpå erövrar hela världen och i våra dagar ännu angår en fjärdedel av jordens befolkning. Emmanuel Carrères berättelse blir en fresk över medelhavsländernas tidiga historia, skakade av politiska och religiösa nycker under en täckmantel i form av pax romana. Den skildrar en stormig tid, med ständiga omvälvningar, tvära vändningar och färgstarka figurer. Men Himmelriket är också, vilket skickligt vävs in i den historiska kontexten, en betraktelse över vad kristendomen är, vad den fortfarande kräver av oss, på vilket sätt den ännu angår oss alla, troende eller inte, och hur de orimligt tvärställda värderingar som den föreskriver (de första skola bliva de sista osv.) har kunnat få en sådan enorm framgång och varaktighet. Det ska dock sägas att dessa reflektioner utan undantag görs med stor respekt och påtaglig ömhet för aktörerna i denna häpnadsväckande historia, både svunna och närvarande, och de hela tiden formuleras utifrån en djupt mänsklig dimension. Det är en respekt och ömhet som Emmanuel Carrère även visar gentemot sig själv som den han en gång var. Här, liksom i alla hans böcker sedan Doktor Romand, är författarens engagemang i det han berättar fullständigt reservationslöst. Under tre år för 25 år sedan var Emmanuel Carrère praktiserande katolik och djupt för att inte säga omåttligt troende. I boken berättas också lite i skymundan av den stora Historien hans egen historia, förändringarna han genomgick då och hur religionen blev en fristad och en tillflykt. Och även om han idag har släppt tron finns fortfarande viljan att granska den, att undersöka vad den egentligen innebär, utan förbehåll och med fullständigt öppna kort och med de brutal uppriktighet och total avsaknad av självcensur som har blivit Emmanuel Carrères signum. Värt att nämna är också Emmanuel Carrères speciella sätt att skriva denna historia. Dels den enormt innehållsrika och samvetsgranna dokumentation som gör att man lär sig saker av berättlesen, många saker. Därtill den speciella tonkänsla som, i kraft av det slags flöde som säkert handlag ger, i en och samma rörelse kan går från det förtroliga till det allvarliga, inte undviker något sammanhang eller fält, och därigenom kan blanda reflektioner kring Lukas med erinringar från en porrfilm, och minnen från en religiös kris som och problem med barnvakten (som, ska sägas, är en amerikans au-pair, väl förtrogen med Philip K. Dick). - Häftad, Engelska, 2023
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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 he thinks will be a subtle, upbeat introduction to yoga.But his trip is cut short, and he is brought down to earth with a thud when he returns to a Paris in turmoil in the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack. From then on, Carrère's life - along with his novel-in-progress - begins to unravel in ever more unexpected ways.'The story of how a life can fray, tighten itself into a noose, unravel... profound and moving' Geoff Dyer'Extraordinarily compelling' Financial Times - Inbunden, Svenska, 2013
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- Häftad, Engelska, 2025
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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' OBSERVERA moving, hard-hitting account of the Paris attacks trial by France’s leading non-fiction writerOn 13 November 2015, nine attackers wearing suicide bombs killed 130 people and left hundreds wounded at sites in and around Paris in the deadliest attack on French soil since the Second World War. V13 was the code name for the much-awaited trial of those who helped to carry out these attacks. Lasting nine months, from September 2021 to June 2022, it consisted of 14 defendants, 2,400 plaintiffs, 350 lawyers and a file 53 metres high.In V13, Emmanuel Carrère follows this landmark trial from its first day to its last, taking us behind the scenes to the lawyers, survivors, family members and the defendants. He assembles, in painstaking and subtle detail, a human portrait of the crime – a study of good and evil, and the philosophical journey through the borderlands between the two.Over the course of his career, Emmanuel Carrère has reinvented non-fiction writing. In a search for truth in all its guises, he dispenses with the rules of genre, fusing passion, curiosity and a profoundly humane intellect, making him one of the most distinctive and important literary voices today. - Häftad, Franska, 2022
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- Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
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'An epic achievement and an honest, heartfelt account' GUARDIANA personal history of war, obsession, love and truth by the Sunday Times-bestselling author of The AdversaryStanding among the mourners gathered to honour Hélène Carrère d’Encausse – renowned historian of Russia, member of the Académie Française, national figure – her son, Emmanuel Carrère, wonders who this formidable woman was: to the country, to history and to himself.In Kolkhoz, Carrère turns his unflinching gaze on his own lineage, crafting his most intimate and ambitious book yet. Spanning four generations, a century of Russian and French history, and up to the war in Ukraine, he traces the destinies of a family scattered by revolution, ideology and pride. There are White Russian ancestors clinging to vanished grandeur; relatives lured back to Stalin’s USSR and swallowed by silence; a father obsessed with genealogy and lost nobility; and, at the centre, a mother whose brilliance, ambition and dominance shaped both French intellectual life and her son’s inner world.As Carrère sifts through letters, archives and contested memories, he confronts the stories families tell to survive and the lies they tell to protect one another and asks: how do political faith and historical catastrophe reverberate across generations? And can a son write about his mother with honesty without betraying her? At once sweeping and surgical, tender and unsparing, Kolkhoz is a family epic and a reckoning: a meditation on communism and its afterlives, on filial piety and rebellion, and on the uneasy border between truth and love.WINNER OF THE PRIX MÉDICISPRAISE FOR EMMANUEL CARRÈRE'A superstar writer' Guardian'One of the best storytellers around' Evening Standard'The most exciting living writer' Karl Ove Knausgaard - Häftad, Engelska, 2017
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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 suspense, Emmanuel Carrère, begins his exploration of the double life of a respectable doctor, eighteen years of lies, five murders, and the extremes to which ordinary people can go.Discover the true story that is ‘beyond the imagination of even the best crime writer' (Sunday Times)'A disturbing look at the dark side of human nature that is powerfully written and beautifully told' Louis Theroux'Mesmerising' Sunday Telegraph'Stunning' Evening Standard'Unputdownable' Washington Post'A masterpiece' New York Times - Inbunden, Svenska, 2011
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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 inte berätta vår historia? Det var ett beställningsuppdrag, och jag åtog med det. Det var så jag kom att beskriva vänskapen mellan en man och en kvinna, båda tillfrisknade från cancer, båda med skador i benen, båda två domare med civilrättsärenden av överskuldsatta i Vienne som sitt arbetsfält. Den här boken handlar om liv och död, om sjukdom, om extrem fattigdom, om rättvisa och isynnerhet om kärlek. Och allt är sant. E.C. Carrère skriver sig längre och längre in i den mänskliga varat, och med denna dramatiska och samtidigt stillsamma bok har den franska dokumentärromanen funnit sin mästare. - Häftad, Engelska, 2024
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FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE ADVERSARYOne 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. As doubt and denial bristle, and every aspect of his life threatens to topple into madness – a disturbing solution comes into view, taking us on a dramatic flight across the world.Translated by Lanie GoodmanElegant novellas-in-translation, VINTAGE EDITIONS celebrate the audacity and ambition of the written word, transporting readers to wherever in the world literary innovation may be found. - LjudbokEngelska, 2024
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Brought to you by Penguin.A moving, hard-hitting account of the Paris attacks trial by France’s leading non-fiction writerOn 13 November 2015, nine attackers wearing suicide bombs killed 130 people and left hundreds wounded at sites in and around Paris in the deadliest attack on French soil since the Second World War. V13 was the code name for the much-awaited trial of those who helped to carry out these attacks. Lasting nine months, from September 2021 to June 2022, it consisted of 14 defendants, 2,400 plaintiffs, 350 lawyers and a file 53 metres high.In V13, Emmanuel Carrère follows this landmark trial from its first day to its last, taking us behind the scenes to the lawyers, survivors, family members and the defendants. He assembles, in painstaking and subtle detail, a human portrait of the crime – a study of good and evil, and the philosophical journey through the borderlands between the two.Over the course of his career, Emmanuel Carrère has reinvented non-fiction writing. In a search for truth in all its guises, he dispenses with the rules of genre, fusing passion, curiosity and a profoundly humane intellect, making him one of the most distinctive and important literary voices today.‘Forensic and troubling, deeply humane, utterly gripping, a book of singular importance for our times’ PHILIPPE SANDS‘Brilliant. Clear-eyed, wise and compelling’ PAUL MURRAY© Emmanuel Carrère 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024
- Häftad, Franska
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- Häftad, Franska, 2025
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- E-bokEngelska, 2014
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Limonov is not a fictional character, but he could have been. He's lived a hundred lives. He was a hoodlum in Ukraine, an idol of the Soviet underground, punk-poet and valet to a billionaire in Manhattan, fashion writer in Paris, lost soldier in the Balkans, and now, in the chaos after the fall of communism a charismatic party leader of a gang of political desperados. Limonov sees himself as a hero, but he is also a bastard. Carrere suspends judgment. Carrère decided to write about Limonov because he thought "that his life, romantic and reckless, tells us something, not just about Limonov or Russia, but the story of all of us after the end of World War II." - Häftad, Engelska, 2018
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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 Appleyard, Sunday TimesThe sensational international bestseller from one of France's most fêted writers - an epic novel telling the story of Christianity as it has never been told before, and one man's crisis of faith.Corinth, ancient Greece, two thousand years ago. An itinerant preacher, poor, wracked by illness, tells the story of a prophet who was crucified in Judea, who came back from the dead, and whose return is a sign of something enormous. Like a contagion, the story will spread over the city, the country and, eventually, the world. Emmanuel Carrère's astonishing historical epic tells the story of the mysterious beginnings of Christianity, bringing to life a distant, primeval past of strange sects, apocalyptic beliefs and political turmoil. In doing so Carrère, once himself a fervent believer, questions his own faith, asks why we believe in resurrection, and what it means. The Kingdom is his masterpiece.'An utterly brilliant book' Catherine Nixey, The Times - E-bokEngelska, 2017
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'The Kingdom, already a huge bestseller in France, is thrilling, magnificent and strange' Bryan Appleyard, Sunday Times'An utterly brilliant book' Catherine Nixey, The TimesThe sensational international bestseller from one of France's most fêted writers - an epic novel telling the story of Christianity as it has never been told before, and one man's crisis of faith.Corinth, ancient Greece, two thousand years ago. An itinerant preacher, poor, wracked by illness, tells the story of a prophet who was crucified in Judea, who came back from the dead, and whose return is a sign of something enormous. Like a contagion, the story will spread over the city, the country and, eventually, the world. Emmanuel Carrère's astonishing historical epic tells the story of the mysterious beginnings of Christianity, bringing to life a distant, primeval past of strange sects, apocalyptic beliefs and political turmoil. In doing so Carrère, once himself a fervent believer, questions his own faith, asks why we believe in resurrection, and what it means. The Kingdom is his masterpiece. - Häftad, Engelska, 2002
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- Häftad, Engelska, 2003
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- Häftad, Engelska, 2005
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- Häftad, Engelska, 2011
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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" 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 force - this fearless reckoning illuminates the schemes we devise to evade ourselves and the inevitable payment they exact. - Inbunden, Engelska, 2026
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Winner of the Prix MedicisThe award-winning literary nonfiction writer turns to his own family's archive and unlocks a century of war, obsession, deception, and truth.The day Emmanuel Carrere is set to fly to Russia for the film adaptation of his book Limonov, a "special military operation" begins in Ukraine. Unease ripples across the world. Nevertheless, Carrere goes and, finding himself called to report on the unfolding events and revisiting fond family memories, extends his stay. One century before, fleeing the Bolshevik Revolution, his ancestors made the reverse journey. As Carrere roams the Hotel Ukraina, increasingly perturbed by the face of Russia that the war reveals, he wonders about the one he had been raised to know.Just after the Second World War, Louis Carrere d'Encausse, a young Bordeaux bourgeois, and Helene Zourabichvili, a poor stateless young woman from a shattered Georgian-Russian lineage, married in Paris. Zourabichvili would make a career of the terrain she had left behind, becoming France's preeminent Russian authority. Drawing on her work and on his father's obsessive family records, Carrere writes a "true novel," one his mother would never have wanted, spanning four generations, a century of Russian and French history, and taking us right up to the war in Ukraine.Clear-eyed, alert to the absurdity of truth, and alive to every shadow in a portrait, Carrere does what only Carrere can do: he turns genealogy into narrative velocity, archives into suspense, grief into an engine of thought. At once intimate and geopolitical, tender and ferociously intelligent, Kolkhoz is Carrere in full command: the master of the moral double take and the deceptively simple sentence.
- Häftad, Engelska, 2006
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______________‘Compelling ... This book should convert a few more readers' - Guardian‘This imaginative biography ... lends pathos and dignity to the life of a man' - Christopher Tayler, Sunday Telegraph‘Carrère is well qualified to conduct a tour of Dick's bizarre world ... Most importantly of all, he sends us back with renewed excitement to the flawed, brilliant books themselves' - Evening Standard______________An unforgettable biography of the visionary grand master of science fiction, Philip K. DickEmmanuel Carrère 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 and both published and unpublished sources, Carrère traces Dick's multiple marriages, paranoid fantasies and dizzying encounters with the drug culture of California. As disturbing and engrossing as any novel by Philip K. Dick himself, Carrère's unconventional study interweaves life and art to reveal the maddening genius whose writing foresaw - from cloning to reality TV - a world that looks ever more like one of his inventions. - Häftad, Engelska, 2012
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- Häftad, Engelska, 2015
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- Häftad, Engelska, 2025
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ONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST'S TEN BEST BOOKS OF 2024One of the London Times's Nine Best Literary Nonfiction Books of the Year"Extraordinary . . . Absolutely gripping." Chris Power, The Guardian"Moving and masterful . . . [A] magnificent book." Becca Rothfeld, The Washington PostOne of The New York Times' twelve books to read in NovemberA moving, hard-hitting account of the Paris attacks trial by Frances leading nonfiction writer. Nearly every day for ten months, from September 2021 to June 2022, life on the Île de la Cité in central Paris came to a standstill. The most expensive and complex trial in French historyfeaturing twenty men accused of involvement in the 2015 attacks on the Bataclan and other sites across Pariswas underway. More than three hundred lawyers represented thousands of victims and the accused, all of whom were given the chance to testify. The case ran to more than a million pages. And, nearly every day for ten months, Emmanuel Carrère showed his press pass, walked through a metal detector, and took a seat in a windowless courtroom to bear witness.V13 isnt so much the story of a trial but of the community that formed around ita city within the city, home to the innocent and the accused, the forgiving and the vengeful, the outspoken and the silent. Carrère introduces us to lawyers, survivors, family members, and above all the defendants, assembling in painstaking detail a human portrait of the crime. What emerges from these pages is a study of good and eviland a philosophical journey through the borderlands between the two. Not since Eichmann in Jerusalem has there been a book of this scope and ambition.
- Häftad, Engelska, 2026
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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 in this extraordinary work. With an idiosyncratic and at times iconoclastic take on the charms and foibles of the Church fathers, Carrere ferries readers through his "doors" into the biblical narrative. Once inside, he follows the ragtag group of early Christians through the tumultuous days of the faith's founding.Shouldering biblical scholarship like a camcorder, Carrere re-creates the world of the New Testament with the acumen of a seasoned storyteller, intertwining his own account of reckoning with the central tenets of the faith with the lives of the first Christians. Carrere puts himself in the shoes of Saint Paul and above all Saint Luke, charting Luke's encounter with the marginal Jewish sect that eventually became Christianity, and retracing his investigation of its founder, a then-obscure prophet who died under notorious circumstances.Boldly blending scholarship with speculation, memoir with journalistic muckraking, Carrere sets out on a headlong chase through the latter part of the Bible, drawing out protagonists who believed they were caught up in the most important events of their time. An expansive and clever meditation on belief, The Kingdom chronicles the advent of a religion, and the ongoing quest to find a place within it.
- Häftad, Engelska, 2027
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- Häftad, Engelska, 2026
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"Justifiably considered the French In Cold Blood" (The Paris Review), The Adversary is a landmark work of true crime-and a deeply personal investigation of inexplicable evil. "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."So begins Emmanuel Carrere's unclassifiable masterpiece, now newly reissued. The crimes shocked France. For eighteen years, Romand's life was the model of bourgeois contentment. Peers admired him as a doting family man, a loving son who called his parents every evening, and a respected researcher at the World Health Organization.But those were all lies: Romand had never graduated from medical school or worked at the WHO. He spent his days wandering in the forest; he supported his family by defrauding relatives. When cracks appeared in his facade, Romand reacted in a way even he couldn't explain.Emmanuel Carrere is "widely understood as France's greatest writer of nonfiction" (The New York Times Magazine); The Adversary, his account of the life, crimes, and trial of Jean-Claude Romand, is his magnum opus.
- Häftad, Engelska, 2026
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SELECTED BY THE NEW YORK TIMES AS ONE OF THE 50 BEST MEMOIRS OF THE PAST 50 YEARSA singular, deeply moving memoir of human connection in the wake of devastating loss, by the "prodigiously talented" (The New York Review of Books) Emmanuel Carrere.In Sri Lanka, a tsunami sweeps a child out to sea, her grandfather helpless against the onrushing water. In France, a woman succumbs to cancer, leaving a hole in the lives of her loved ones. Present at both events is Emmanuel Carrere, who sets out to tell the story of two families shattered and ultimately restored. What he accomplishes is nothing short of a literary miracle: a heartrending narrative of endless love, a meditation on courage and decency in the face of adversity, and an intimate and reverent look at the extraordinary beauty and nobility of ordinary lives. As he tells the stories of those touched by loss-most memorably, an unsentimental, one-legged judge who has made a career of fighting for France's most vulnerable-Carrere himself, a longtime chronicler of his own tormented psyche, unexpectedly finds consolation and fulfillment in immersing himself in the lives of others.