97,196 Words

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 Knausgaard

Over the course of his career, Emmanuel Carr¿ 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 Carr¿ one of our most distinctive and important literary voices today.

97,196 Words introduces Carr¿''s shorter work to an English-language audience. Featuring more than thirty extraordinary texts written over an illustrious twenty-five-year period of Carr¿''s creative life, the book shows a remarkable mind at work. Spanning continents, hi