# My Life as a Russian Novel

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- Authors: [Emmanuel Carrère](https://www.bookquiver.com/emmanuel-carrere)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-17-8470-581-7
- Pages: 288
- Published: 2018-02-01
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

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