Three disturbing masterpieces of non-fiction novels. A milestone of 21st century French literature.

With the books included here Emmanuel Carrère took a giant step in a career that he had already stood out for its uniqueness, daring and radicality. The author explored the non-fiction novel in them, and the result was three masterpieces of unmatched power.

The Adversary, which has been compared to Capote's In Cold Blood, is a disturbing descent into the darkest areas of the human soul that is based on a real event: a man murdered his wife, his children and his parents. Because? Because he was an impostor who felt unable to face the imminent collapse of his world of lies: he had made his family believe that he was a doctor when in reality he spent his time in highway parking lots or walking around the city. forest.

A Russian novel is an investigation into the life of one of the author's grandparents, probably executed for collaborating with the Nazis, whose search is interwoven with other secrets, ghosts and desires.

On the Lives of Others, for its part, addresses the loss of loved ones, intertwining the consequences of a tsunami in Sri Lanka and the devastation of cancer. Carrère dares like few others to explore the possibilities of the word to reveal the depths of the human being. His is a literature written without a network and that is not afraid to delve into the darkness.

"In today's France there are few truly great writers, and Emmanuel Carrère is one of them" (The Paris Review).

"He belongs to the lineage of the best type of writers" (Robert McCrum, The Observer).

"Each of the works that make up his intense and extraordinary bibliography is like a dive into the abyss" (Nathalie Crom, Télérama).

«An extraordinary ability to describe the most profound and devastating, with a language that manages to involve you in the front and back of people and things, making what the characters feel your own» (Carlos Boyero, El País).

«Magnificent, brilliant and relentless... Dazzling» (John Updike).

"I'm passionate about it" (Pedro Almodóvar).