Emmanuel Carrère

Named a Best Book of 2022 by The Guardian This is a book about yoga. Or at least, it was. Emmanuel Carr re is a renowned writer. After decades of emotional upheaval, he has begun to live successfully--he is healthy; he works; he loves. He practices meditation, striving to observe the world without evaluating it. In this state of heightened awareness, he sets out for a ten-day silent retreat in the French heartland, leaving his phone, his books, and his daily life behind. But he's also gathering material for his next book, which he thinks will be a pleasant, useful introduction to yoga. Four days later, there's a tap on the window: something has happened. Forced to leave the retreat early, he returns to a Paris in crisis. Life is derailed. His city is in turmoil. His work-in-progress falters. His marriage begins to unravel, as does his entanglement with another woman. He wavers between opposites--between self-destruction and self-control; sanity and madness; elation and despair. The story he has told about himself falls away. And still, he continues to live. This is a book about one man's desire to get better, and to be better. It is laced with doubt, animated by the dangerous interplay between what is fiction and what is real. Loving, humorous, harrowing and profound, Yoga hurls us towards the outer edges of consciousness, where, finally, we can see things as they really are.

Löydä seuraava lukuelämys, opiskelutarvikkeet tai täydellinen lahja. Asiantunteva henkilökuntamme auttaa sinua myymälöissämme.

A TIMES, NEW STATESMAN and WASHINGTON POST Book of the Year'Absolutely gripping' GUARDIAN'A marvel' SUNDAY TIMES'Magisterial' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH'Extraordinary and generous' WASHINGTON POST'A gripping testimony of terror and loss' OBSERVERA moving, hard-hitting account of the Paris attacks trial by France’s leading non-fiction writerOn 13 November 2015, nine attackers wearing suicide bombs killed 130 people and left hundreds wounded at sites in and around Paris in the deadliest attack on French soil since the Second World War. V13 was the code name for the much-awaited trial of those who helped to carry out these attacks. Lasting nine months, from September 2021 to June 2022, it consisted of 14 defendants, 2,400 plaintiffs, 350 lawyers and a file 53 metres high. In V13, Emmanuel Carrère follows this landmark trial from its first day to its last, taking us behind the scenes to the lawyers, survivors, family members and the defendants. He assembles, in painstaking and subtle detail, a human portrait of the crime – a study of good and evil, and the philosophical journey through the borderlands between the two. Over 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, fusing passion, curiosity and a profoundly humane intellect, making him one of the most distinctive and important literary voices today.

ONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST'S TEN BEST BOOKS OF 2024 One of the London Times's Nine Best Literary Nonfiction Books of the Year "Extraordinary . . . Absolutely gripping." --Chris Power, The Guardian "Moving and masterful . . . A] magnificent book." --Becca Rothfeld, The Washington PostA moving, hard-hitting account of the Paris attacks trial by France's leading nonfiction writer. Nearly every day for ten months, from September 2021 to June 2022, life on the le de la Cit in central Paris came to a standstill. The most expensive and complex trial in French history--featuring twenty men accused of involvement in the 2015 attacks on the Bataclan and other sites across Paris--was underway. More than three hundred lawyers represented thousands of victims and the accused, all of whom were given the chance to testify. The case ran to more than a million pages. And, nearly every day for ten months, Emmanuel Carr re showed his press pass, walked through a metal detector, and took a seat in a windowless courtroom to bear witness. V13 isn't so much the story of a trial but of the community that formed around it--a city within the city, home to the innocent and the accused, the forgiving and the vengeful, the outspoken and the silent. Carr re introduces us to lawyers, survivors, family members, and above all the defendants, assembling in painstaking detail a human portrait of the crime. What emerges from these pages is a study of good and evil--and a philosophical journey through the borderlands between the two. Not since Eichmann in Jerusalem has there been a book of this scope and ambition.

FROM THE BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF THE ADVERSARYOne morning, a man shaves off his long-worn moustache, hoping to amuse his wife and friends. But when nobody notices, or pretends not to have noticed, what started out as a simple trick turns to terror. As doubt and denial bristle, and every aspect of his life threatens to topple into madness – a disturbing solution comes into view, taking us on a dramatic flight across the world. Translated by Lanie GoodmanElegant novellas-in-translation, VINTAGE EDITIONS celebrate the audacity and ambition of the written word, transporting readers to wherever in the world literary innovation may be found.

Tämä on kirja joogasta. Tai sen piti olla sellainen. Tammikuussa 2015 menestyskirjailija Emmanuel Carrère jättää puhelimen ja kaupungin kiireet taakseen. Hän vetäytyy meditoimaan joogaretriittiin Ranskan maaseudulle. Hän ajattelee keräävänsä materiaalia uuteen kirjaansa, jonka hän kaavailee olevan syvällinen ja käypä johdanto joogan saloihin. Hän haluaa tarkkailla maailmaa sitä arvottamatta. Mutta matka loppuu lyhyeen ja hän palaa Pariisiin Charlie Hebdon terrori-iskun jälkeiseen kaaokseen. Kirjailijan mukava elämä ja teksti suistuvat raiteiltaan. Hänellä diagnosoidaan kakkostyypin kaksisuuntainen mielialahäiriö. Hänet passitetaan mielisairaalaan neljän kuukauden sähköterapiajaksolle. Hänen avioliittonsa rakoilee. Hän ahdistuu ystävänsä kuolemasta ja kaipaa salaperäistä rakastettuaan, joka katosi. Hän harhailee tuuliajolla tappion maisemissa. Hänen tarinansa itsestään ei pidä enää paikkaansa. Mutta hän jatkaa elämäänsä. Hän päättää yrittää kehittyä paremmaksi ihmiseksi ja koota itseään ihmisenä ja kirjailijana lähtemällä raporttimatkalle Irakiin tutkimaan Saddam Husseinin verikoraania, jonka kirjoittamiseen käytettiin 27 litraa diktaattorin verta. Eksistentiaalinen ahdistus ei hellitä. Kirjailija päätyy Kreikan saaristoon pakolaisvyöryn keskelle. Tuntuu kuin maailmakin olisi suistunut raiteiltaan. Jooga käsittelee elämän jiniä ja jangia: elämän ja kuoleman, intohimon ja epätoivon, läsnäolon ja läsnäolon puutteen teemoja. Meditaatio ja siitä kirjoittaminen johdattavat perimmäisten arvoitusten äärelle. Jooga on raastavan rehellinen ja syvämietteisen humoristinen omakuva miehestä, joka yrittää tulla toimeen itsensä ja läheistensä kanssa. Teos tarjoaa näkymän tietoisuuden uloimmille kehille, totuuden äärelle. Emmanuel Carrère (s. 1957) on arvostettu ranskalainen kirjailija, jonka korkeatasoisia ja filosofisia kirjoja on käännetty suomeksi tätä ennen neljä, viimeisimpänä mm. Venäjän ja Ukrainan suhdetta kuvaava Limonov (Like, 2010). Hän on pysynyt autofiktiiviselle otteelleen uskollisena, mutta pystyy silti yllättämään jokaisella kirjallaan." Emmanuel Carrère on maailman paras elävä kirjailija." Karl Ove Knausgård