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Read the definitive essay collection from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Adversary, dubbed ''France''s greatest writer of non-fiction'' (New York Times)''The most exciting living write ...

Read the definitive essay collection from the Sunday Times bestselling author of The Adversary, dubbed ''France''s greatest writer of non-fiction'' (New York Times)''The most exciting living writer'' Karl Ove KnausgaardOver the course of his career, Emmanuel Carrère has reinvented non-fiction writing. In a search for truth in all its guises, he dispenses with the rules of genre. For him, no form is out of reach: theology, historiography, reportage and memoir - among many others - are fused under the pressure of an inimitable combination of passion, curiosity and intellect that has made Carrère