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My life as a Russian novel : a memoir / Emmanuel Carrère ; translated by Linda Coverdale.

by Carrère, Emmanuel, 1957-

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New York : Metropolitan Books, 2010.

Carrère, Emmanuel, 1957-

Carrère, Emmanuel, 1957- -- Travel.

Carrère, Emmanuel, 1957- -- Relations with women.

Documentary films -- Production and direction -- Russia (Federation) -- Kotelʹnich.

Kotelʹnich (Russia) -- Social conditions -- 2001-2010.

Kotelʹnich (Russia) -- Economic conditions -- 2001-2010.

276 p. ; 22 cm.

In this memoir, acclaimed French novelist Carrère turns his critical eye on himself, recounting a disappointing documentary-film endeavor and a deteriorating romance. The discovery of a Hungarian prisoner of war brings Carrère to the tiny post-Soviet town of Kotelnich, but the dead-end story crushes his hopes for an interesting film project. Though rural Kotelnich is hopelessly dull, Carrère decides to stay. He'll cover the town's poor, hard-working residents, including a bodybuilder who helps reform wayward young men and a local girl aspiring to be the next Britney Spears. More important, he'll look into the mysterious disappearance of his Russian grandfather. Hand-in-hand in this torturous Russian saga is Carrère's romantic crisis with fiancée Sophie, a young woman in love with the author but so cowed by his moods and self-absorption that she took another lover and lied outrageously about it, compounding Carrère's emotional paranoia.

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