My Life as a Russian Novel

Carrère brings the whole to sharp focus with a few jarring truths and a moment of great beauty. You leave its last pages with a deep appreciation for life

Washington Post

Emmanuel Carrère has written a work of infinite sorrow, infernal jealousy, and violent passion. My Life as a Russian Novel dazzles

Le Monde

An elegant, emotional self-examination, full of bleak but truthful insights about the lies and compromises of love

The Times

Brims with ideas and incidents... Gripping and fascinating, an intimate portrait of a complicated man's inner life and his struggles to find some kind of happiness and fulfilment

Guardian

A captivating memoir that reads like a literary erotic-suspense novel

Boston Globe

As a writer, Carrère is straight berserk; as a storyteller he is so freakishly talented, so unassuming in grace and power that you only realize the hold he's got on your when you attempt to pull away

Junot Díaz

He's the best kind of writer, not just a bestseller but a man who is not afraid to leave the comfort zone of his desk, go out into the world, take risks, and get his shoes dirty

Observer

This book is very much at the crossroads of writing-as-therapy and the sort of fact-fiction blurring that fans of WG Sebald and Geoff Dyer will appreciate

Independent

Excoriating and forcefully intelligent

Nat Segnit, Times Literary Supplement