V13

Rezensionen / Stimmen

I'll read anything by Emmanuel Carrere, a roving intellectual with a curious mind . . . A powerful read * The Times, *Books of the Year* * Emmanuel Carrere [is] quite possibly France's best non-fiction writer... [V13 is] a masterpiece * New Statesman, *Books of the Year* * Extraordinary . . . A lattice of absorbing storylines . . . Absolutely gripping -- Chris Power * Guardian * Carrere's icy, disclosing style is a marvel . . . In this marvellous and terrifying book, Carrere convinces us that good is not just morally better than evil. Good is actually more interesting than evil, and a harder philosophical problem to solve -- Will Lloyd * Sunday Times * Extraordinary and generous * Washington Post * Compelling and richly rendered . . . Carrere is one of the most exciting and formally innovative of current non-fiction writers * Guardian * A gripping testimony of terror and loss . . . the strength and humanity Carrere brings out makes for a reading experience that is at once humbling and invigorating * Observer * Magisterial . . . It's a reminder of humanity, and its frailty * Sunday Telegraph * It is hard to imagine a book emerging that will manage to be more informative, moving or likely to last than Emmanuel Carrere's V13 * Spectator * A curious but compelling mix of dramatic reconstruction, psychological deliberation and personal reflection * Economist * Carrere has . . . forged an extremely readable story out of a dizzying amount of information * New Statesman * An affirmation of life, of survival, of the bonds of community and solidarity that allow us to rebuild in the aftermath of shattering violence -- Adam Shatz Forensic and troubling, deeply humane, utterly gripping, a book of singular importance for our times, on law as story and life, superbly rendered for the reader in English -- Philippe Sands Not since Hannah Arendt wrote about the trial of the Nazi Adolf Eichmann has a book laid bare the political and moral scaffolding of our times with such commitment and intelligence -- Lyndsey Stonebridge Impelled by a tolerant mind's desire to confront the intolerable, V13 is an utterly riveting account of one of contemporary Europe's darkest nights - and its anguished aftermath - by a French literary colossus -- Rob Doyle V13 is a work of profound moral imagination and inquiry. It is a dazzling book by one of the most extraordinary writers of our time -- Katie Kitamura Brilliant. Clear-eyed, wise and compelling -- Paul Murray An unforgettable book, a document of violence and dignity like no other, a work of such humanity and generous contemplation that it functions as a tribute to the value of testimony itself -- Megan Nolan