About the Author

Emmanuel Carrère, born in Paris in 1957, is a novelist, journalist, screenwriter, and film producer. He is the award-winning, internationally renowned author of 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, the Prix des Prix, and the Europese Literatuurprijs.

John Lambert has translated Monsieur, Reticence, and Self-Portrait Abroad by Jean-Philippe Toussaint, as well as Emmanuel Carrère's Limonov, The Kingdom, and 97,196 Words. He lives in South Korea.

Reviews

Praise for Yoga "Fascinating . . . Funny . . . Carrère's work revolves around a practice of extreme--deranged, even--candor . . . I would gladly read a hundred pages of Carrère scrutinizing the 'huge caverns' of his nostrils, lingering on the way that air prickles and tingles against their walls."
--Molly Young, The New York Times Book Review "A devastating portrait . . . [Carrère's] singular, ever-expanding work, in which one pain need never obscure another, in which truths and half-truths are held not in opposition but in delicate, precarious balance, is an answer in itself."
--Sam Byers, The Guardian "[Yoga] is a tour de force."
--Sarah Richmond, The Times Literary Supplement "Carrère remains a fascinating character on the page, and his lithe confessional writing will resonate with longtime fans. The result is another marvelous creation from Carrère's boundless imagination."
--Publishers Weekly (starred review) "Vivid . . . an intimate chronicle punctuated by loss, desperation, and trauma . . . a probing memoir."
--Kirkus Reviews Praise for Emmanuel Carrère "Carrère has managed to write one masterpiece after another . . . He is widely understood as France's greatest writer of nonfiction."
--Wyatt Mason, The New York Times Magazine "Carrère is masterly both at singling out the telling detail and at grasping and conveying his subject as a whole . . . What is most compelling about his work is the quality of his mind, of his thinking. Of the scourging pressure of his need to understand."
--Robert Gottlieb, The New York Times Book Review "Carrère has become celebrated for his propulsive, original, free-ranging narratives, which frequently mix memoir, biography, and fiction . . . He is such engrossing and charming company--witty, restless, intellectually bold, confessional, shame-proof."
--James Wood, The New Yorker "Emmanuel Carrère is known for the way he bends and breaks genres . . . The core of Mr. Carrère's talent is precisely that he brings readers into sympathetic contact with others, powerful and powerless, insiders and outsiders."
--The Economist (UK) "The most exciting living writer."
--Karl Ove Knausgaard