A Russian Novel

Présentation de l'éditeur Set in Paris and Kotelnich, a small post-Soviet town, A Russian Novel traces Carrère's pursuit of two obsessions: the disappearance of his Russian grandfather and his fascination with a woman he loves but cannot keep from destroying. Elegant and passionate, A Russian Novel weaves the strands of Carrère's story into a travelogue of a journey inward. Road trip, confession, emotional tour de force, this fearless reckoning illuminates the schemes we devise to evade ourselves and the inevitable payment they exact as we discover we cannot, after all, escape our most fearsome and persistent adversary: yourself. Revue de presse A description of two years in Carrère's life that brims with ideas and incidents, mingling a failed love affair, a series of journeys to a dismal town in Russia and an investigation into his grandfather's life and death ― Guardian This book is very much at the crossroads of writing-as-therapy and the sort of fact-fiction blurring that fans of W G Sebald and Geoff Dyer will appreciate ― Independent Impressive . . . Definitely a book to admire for its ambition ― Metro Biographie de l'auteur Emanuel Carrère, novelist, filmmaker, journalist and biographer, is the award-winning internationally renowned author of The Adversary, Class Trip, The Mustache and A Russian Novel [9781846680854] published by Serpent's Tail. He lives in Paris.Linda Coverdale is an award-winning translator. She has translated many classic works of modern French literature into English including Roland Barthes, Marie Darrieussecq and Tahar Ben Jelloun. In 2006 she won the Scott Moncrieff Prize for her translation of A Time for Machetes.