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by Emmanuel Carrère (Author), John Lambert (Translator)
This is a book about yoga. Or at least, it was.
Emmanuel Carrère is a renowned writer. After decades of emotional upheaval, he has begun to live successfully--he is healthy; he works; he loves. He practices meditation, striving to observe the world without evaluating it. In this state of heightened awareness, he sets out for a ten-day silent retreat in the French heartland, leaving his phone, his books, and his daily life behind. But he's also gathering material for his next book, which he thinks will be a pleasant, useful introduction to yoga.
Author Biography
Emmanuel Carrère, born in Paris in 1957, is a novelist, journalist, screenwriter, and film producer. He is the award-winning, internationally renowned author of Kolkhoz, V13, 97,196 Words, The Kingdom, Limonov, The Mustache, Class Trip, The Adversary (a New York Times Notable Book), My Life as a Russian Novel, and Lives Other Than My Own, which was awarded the Globe de Cristal for Best Novel in 2010. For Limonov, Carrère received the Prix Renaudot and the Prix des Prix in 2011 and the Europese Literatuurprijs in 2013. For V13, Carrère received the Prix Medicis in 2025.
John Lambert has translated Monique Escapes by Édouard Louis, as well as works by Jean-Philippe Toussaint and Emmanuel Carrère. His translation of Carrère's V13 won the 2024 French-American Foundation's Translation Prize. He lives in Nantes, in northwestern France.
