A superb collection of essays by Emmanuel Carrère, one of the best storytellers around? When Carrère writes a story, he knows how to stir up powerful and conflicting emotions in his reader, which is one of the reasons he?s so good? It?s the best book I?ve read for ages. -- William Leith, Evening Standard *Books of the Year*The most exciting living writer. -- Karl Ove KnausgaardEmmanuel Carrère is known for the way he bends and breaks genres? [he] is the most celebrated writer of high-end nonfiction in France? the core of Mr Carrère's talent is precisely that he brings readers into sympathetic contact with others, powerful and powerless, insiders and outsiders? It is a masterful illusion., EconomistImpossible not to fall in love with?Carrere is regarded as a superstar writer? it is a joy to be reminded of all the wonderful things that [creative non-fiction] can do. -- Kathryn Hughes, GuardianEmmanuel Carrère, a man fascinated by crime, eroticism and the oddities of human behaviour, is arguably France?s most original living writer of non-fiction? he creates reportage, that, with its insight and humanity, is closer to literature than journalism. -- Nick Rennison, Sunday Times Biografía del autor Emmanuel Carrère, novelist, filmmaker, journalist, and biographer, is the award-winning internationally renowned author of The Adversary (a Sunday Times bestseller and New York Times Notable Book, translated into twenty-three languages), Lives Other Than My Own, My Life as a Russian Novel, Class Trip, Limonov (winner of the 2011 Prix Renaudot), The Mustache and, most recently, The Kingdom.