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‘As a writer, Carrère is straight berserk’ Junot Dìaz
In this non-fiction novel Рroad trip, confession, and erotic tour de force РEmmanuel Carr̬re 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, Carr̬re weaves his story into a travelogue of a journey inward, travelling fearlessly into the depths of his tortured psyche.
