Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Lives Other Than My Own: A Memoir

Lives Other Than My Own: A Memoir

Carrère, Emmanuel
Coverdale, Linda

Paperback

Biographies GeneralLiterary FiguresDeath & Dying

Publisher Price: $19.99

ISBN10: 1250473950
ISBN13: 9781250473950
Publisher: Metropolitan Books
Published: Sep 8 2026
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.70 Width: 5.30 Depth: 8.20
Language: English

SELECTED BY THE NEW YORK TIMES AS ONE OF THE 50 BEST MEMOIRS OF THE PAST 50 YEARS

A singular, deeply moving memoir of human connection in the wake of devastating loss, by the prodigiously talented (The New York Review of Books) Emmanuel Carrère.

In Sri Lanka, a tsunami sweeps a child out to sea, her grandfather helpless against the onrushing water. In France, a woman succumbs to cancer, leaving a hole in the lives of her loved ones. Present at both events is Emmanuel Carrère, who sets out to tell the story of two families shattered and ultimately restored. What he accomplishes is nothing short of a literary miracle: a heartrending narrative of endless love, a meditation on courage and decency in the face of adversity, and an intimate and reverent look at the extraordinary beauty and nobility of ordinary lives. As he tells the stories of those touched by loss--most memorably, an unsentimental, one-legged judge who has made a career of fighting for France's most vulnerable--Carrère himself, a longtime chronicler of his own tormented psyche, unexpectedly finds consolation and fulfillment in immersing himself in the lives of others.

Also from

Carrère, Emmanuel

View All

Also in

Literary Figures

View All