Yoga

From the bestselling author of THE ADVERSARY

Emmanuel Carrère, John Lambert

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Vintage
13 July 2023

Memoirs; Oriental & Indian philosophy; Coping with illness; Complementary therapies, healing & health; Mind, body, spirit: meditation & visualisation

A powerful reckoning with mental illness and a search for truth and healing through the discipline of yoga, from one of the world's greatest living writers

This is a book about yoga. Or at least, it was.

January 2015. High on literary success and familial bliss, Emmanuel Carr re embarks on a rigorous ten-day meditative retreat in rural France in search of clarity and material for his next book, which he thinks will be a subtle, upbeat introduction to yoga.

But his trip is cut short, and he is brought down to earth with a thud when he returns to a Paris in turmoil in the aftermath of the Charlie Hebdo terrorist attack. From then on, Carr re's life - along with his novel-in-progress - begins to unravel in ever more unexpected ways.

'The story of how a life can fray, tighten itself into a noose, unravel... profound and moving' Geoff Dyer

'Extraordinarily compelling' Financial Times

By: Emmanuel Carrère
Translated by: John Lambert
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 256g
ISBN: 9781529114324
ISBN 10: 1529114322
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 13 July 2023
Audience: General/trade , Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , ELT Advanced , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Emmanuel Carr re is a novelist, journalist, screenwriter, and film director. He is the award-winning, internationally renowned author of fifteen books including My Life as a Russian Novel, Limonov, The Kingdom, 97,196 Words, and the Sunday Times bestselling The Adversary. He lives in Paris.

Reviews for Yoga: From the bestselling author of THE ADVERSARY

Completely arresting. He [Carrere] has the talent...of showing us his foibles without demanding that we identify with them. * The Times * A devastating portrait...[Carrere'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 * Guardian * An exhilarating new work of autofiction... It's wonderful. It is Carrere's willingness to face his own flaws full in the face that makes his writing so striking, and - dare I say it - relatable. * Literary Review * Unlike any book I've ever read... Carrere is anything but ordinary as a talent, but his great and precious gift is to reveal his own mind in such a way that illuminates the infinity that belongs to every human person. * Megan Nolan, author of ACTS OF DESPERATION * [With] relentless clarity of thought and confessional honesty... Yoga is fascinating on the purpose of meditation... [an] extraordinarily compelling account. * Financial Times *