My Life as a Russian Novel: A Memoir

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 Carrères 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 Carrère 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.