Lives Other Than My Own

Name: Lives Other Than My Own
Author: Emmanuel Carrere

Auteur: Emmanuel Carrere

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Emmanuel Carrere Carr Re

Engels
Paperback
9781250013774
04 september 2012
256 pagina's

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SELECTED BY THE NEW YORK TIMES AS ONE OF THE 50 BEST MEMOIRS OF THE PAST 50 YEARS

You begin this memoir thinking it will be about one thing, and it turns into something else altogethera book at once more ordinary and more extraordinary than any first impressions might allow.The New York Times

MovingCarrères prose is precise and measuredThrough interviews with friends and relatives of both families, he creates powerful portraits that celebrate ordinary lives.The New Yorker

Award-winning author Emmanuel Carrère's, Lives Other Than My Own is an act of generous imagination that unflinchingly records devastating loss and, equally vividly, the wealth of human solace that follows in its wake.

In Sri Lanka, a tsunami sweeps a child out to sea, her grandfather helpless against the onrushing water. In France, a young woman succumbs to illness, leaving her husband and small children bereft. Present at both events, Emmanuel Carrère sets out to tell the story of two familiesshattered and ultimately restored. What he accomplishes is nothing short of a literary miracle: a heartrending narrative of endless love, a meditation on courage and decency in the face of adversity, an intimate and reverent look at the extraordinary beauty and nobility of ordinary lives.

Precise, sober, and suspenseful, as full of twists and turns as any novel, Lives Other Than My Own confronts terrifying catastrophes to illuminate the astonishing richness of human connection: a grandfather who thought he had found paradisetoo soonand now devotes himself to helping his neighbors rebuild their village; a husband so in love with his ailing wife that he carries her in his arms like a knight does his princess; and finally, Carrère himself, longtime chronicler of the tormented self, who unexpectedly finds consolation and even joy as he immerses himself in the lives of others.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 04 september 2012
Aantal pagina's: 256
Illustraties: Nee

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Hoofdauteur: Emmanuel Carrere
Tweede Auteur: Carr Re
Hoofduitgeverij: Picador USA

Vertaling

Eerste Vertaler: Linda Coverdale

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Extra groot lettertype: Nee
Product breedte: 137 mm
Product hoogte: 18 mm
Product lengte: 213 mm
Studieboek: Nee
Verpakking breedte: 139 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 23 mm
Verpakking lengte: 215 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 299 g

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EAN: 9781250013774

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