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In work after work, the critically acclaimed publisher Emmanuel Carrere has trained his unblinking gaze on the lives of others as they combat a losing battle with that most fearsome of adversaries: the self. Now, determined to escape the bleak visions of his narratives, he takes on a film task in the heart and soul of Russia while also getting into a new romance back in Paris. But quickly enough, the diversion he looks for eludes him, intimacy shows too arduous, and Carrere is kept peering in to the dark reflection of his own life. Occur Paris and Kotelnich, a tiny post-Soviet town, My Life as a Russian Book traces Carrere's quest for two obsessions: the disappearance of his Russian grandfather and his erotic fascination with a woman he enjoys but cannot avoid destroying. In prose that is graceful and passionate, Carrere weaves the strands of his storyline into a travelogue of any journey inward. Road trip, confession, erotic head to de power - this fearless reckoning illuminates the schemes we devise to evade ourselves and the unavoidable repayment they exact.
