{"id":286356,"date":"2011-08-26T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-08-26T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2011\/08\/26\/latest-review-lives-other-than-my-own-by-emmanuel-carrere\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T14:09:55","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T14:09:55","slug":"latest-review-lives-other-than-my-own-by-emmanuel-carrere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2011\/08\/26\/latest-review-lives-other-than-my-own-by-emmanuel-carrere\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest Review: "Lives Other Than My Own" by Emmanuel Carrere"},"content":{"rendered":"

The latest addition<\/a> to our Reviews Section<\/a> is a piece by Monica Carter on this week’s Read This Next title,<\/a> Lives Other Than My Own<\/em> by Emmanuel Carrere, which is translated from the French by Linda Coverdale and forthcoming from Metropolitan Books. <\/p>\n

Monica Carter<\/a> is a contributing reviewer to Three Percent, and a member of the Best Translated Book Award fiction panel. She lives in Los Angeles where she used to work at the wonderful Skylight Books and is now concentrating on her writing. <\/p>\n

Here’s the opening of her review:<\/p>\n

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France\u2019s Emmanuel Carr\u00e8re, filmmaker, novelist and biographer, attempts to hit fate below the belt in his latest effort, Lives Other Than My Own.<\/em> Difficult to classify—it could be memoir, it could be fiction, it could be a treatise on compassion—Lives Other Than My Own<\/i> presents stories of grief about people the author knows. We\u2019re not talking about typical down-on-your-luck stories either; we are talking gut wrenching and life-altering stories of grief brought on by the cruelty of fate. Under the guide of Carr\u00e8re\u2019s nuanced prose, simultaneously journalistic and emotionally astute, you will journey through this book only to rise up out of your chair shaking your fists and screaming towards the heavens, \u201cWhy, fate, why?\u201d by the turn of the last page.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Carrere opens this book with the tragedy of the tsunami that hit Sri Lanka in 2004. On vacation with his wife and their two boys in Sri Lanka, the hotel they are staying at is untouched by the disaster. Yet a couple, J\u00e9r\u00f4me and Delphine, they have befriended during their trip loses their four-year-old daughter, Juliette. As devastating as the summary of this loss sounds, Carr\u00e8re\u2019s style brings us to the edge of this loss to witness the irrefutable void of mourning:<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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“A few dozen yards from us, in another bungalow, J\u00e9r\u00f4me and Delphine must be lying down as well, wide awake. He has taken her in his arms, or is that impossible for them as well? It\u2019s the first night. The night of the day their daughter died. This morning she was alive, she woke up, she came to play in their bed, called them Mama and Papa, she was laughing, she was warm, she was the loveliest and warmest and sweetest thing on earth, and now she\u2019s dead. She will always be dead.”<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Click here<\/a> to read the entire piece. And click here<\/a> to read an extended preview of Lives Other Than My Own<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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