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Emmanuel Carrère is a novelist, journalist, screenwriter and film director. He is the award-winning, internationally renowned author of sixteen books, including V13, Limonov, The Kingdom, 97,196 Words, Yoga and the Sunday Times bestselling The Adversary.<b>I’ll read anything by Emmanuel Carrère, </b>a roving intellectual with a curious mind . . . <b>A powerful </b>read
The Times, *Books of the Year*
Emmanuel Carrère [is] quite possibly France’s best non-fiction writer… [<i>V13</i> is] <b>a masterpiece</b>
New Statesman, *Books of the Year*
<b>Extraordinary </b>. . . A lattice of absorbing storylines . . . <b>Absolutely gripping</b>
- Chris Power, Guardian
Carrère’s icy, disclosing style is <b>a marvel</b> . . . In this <b>marvellous and terrifying </b>book, Carrère 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
<b>Extraordinary and generous</b>
Washington Post
<b>Compelling and richly rendered</b> . . . Carrère is one of the most exciting and formally innovative of current non-fiction writers
Guardian
A <b>gripping </b>testimony of terror and loss . . . the strength and humanity Carrère brings out makes for a reading experience that is <b>at once humbling and invigorating</b>
Observer
<b>Magisterial</b> . . . It's a reminder of humanity, and its frailty
Sunday Telegraph
It is hard to imagine a book emerging that will manage to be <b>more informative, moving or likely to last </b>than Emmanuel Carrère’s <i>V13</i>
Spectator
A curious but <b>compelling</b> mix of dramatic reconstruction, psychological deliberation and personal reflection
Economist
Carrère has . . . forged <b>an extremely readable story</b> out of a dizzying amount of information
New Statesman
An <b>affirmation of life</b>, of <b>survival</b>, of the <b>bonds of community and solidarity </b>that allow us to rebuild in the aftermath of shattering violence
- Adam Shatz,
<b>Forensic and troubling, deeply humane, utterly gripping</b>, 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 <b>political and moral scaffolding of our times with such commitment and intelligence</b>
- Lyndsey Stonebridge,
Impelled by a tolerant mind’s desire to confront the intolerable, <i>V13</i> is an <b>utterly riveting</b> account of one of contemporary Europe’s darkest nights – and its anguished aftermath – by a French literary colossus
- Rob Doyle,
<i>V13</i> is a work of <b>profound moral imagination and inquiry</b>. It is a <b>dazzling</b> book by one of the most extraordinary writers of our time
- Katie Kitamura,
<b>Brilliant. Clear-eyed, wise and compelling</b>
- Paul Murray,
<b>An unforgettable book</b>, a document of violence and dignity like no other, <b>a work of such humanity and generous contemplation</b> that it functions as a tribute to the value of testimony itself
- Megan Nolan,
A TIMES, NEW STATESMAN and WASHINGTON POST Book of the Year
'Absolutely gripping' GUARDIAN
'A marvel' SUNDAY TIMES
'Magisterial' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
'Extraordinary and generous' WASHINGTON POST
'A gripping testimony of terror and loss' OBSERVER
A moving, hard-hitting account of the Paris attacks trial by France’s leading non-fiction writer
On 13 November 2015, nine attackers wearing suicide bombs killed 130 people and left hundreds wounded at sites in and around Paris in the deadliest attack on French soil since the Second World War. V13 was the code name for the much-awaited trial of those who helped to carry out these attacks. Lasting nine months, from September 2021 to June 2022, it consisted of 14 defendants, 2,400 plaintiffs, 350 lawyers and a file 53 metres high.
In V13, Emmanuel Carrère follows this landmark trial from its first day to its last, taking us behind the scenes to the lawyers, survivors, family members and the defendants. He assembles, in painstaking and subtle detail, a human portrait of the crime – a study of good and evil, and the philosophical journey through the borderlands between the two.
Over the course of his career, Emmanuel Carrère has reinvented non-fiction writing. In a search for truth in all its guises, he dispenses with the rules of genre, fusing passion, curiosity and a profoundly humane intellect, making him one of the most distinctive and important literary voices today.