{"product_id":"kolkhoz-emmanuel-carrere-hardcover","title":"Kolkhoz -- Emmanuel Carrère, Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of the Prix Médicis\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe award-winning literary nonfiction writer turns to his own family's archive and unlocks a century of war, obsession, deception, and truth.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe day Emmanuel Carrère is set to fly to Russia for the film adaptation of his book \u003ci\u003eLimonov\u003c\/i\u003e, a \"special military operation\" begins in Ukraine. Unease ripples across the world. Nevertheless, Carrère goes and, finding himself called to report on the unfolding events and revisiting fond family memories, extends his stay. One century before, fleeing the Bolshevik Revolution, his ancestors made the reverse journey. As Carrère roams the Hotel Ukraina, increasingly perturbed by the face of Russia that the war reveals, he wonders about the one he had been raised to know. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJust after the Second World War, Louis Carrère d'Encausse, a young Bordeaux bourgeois, and Hélène Zourabichvili, a poor stateless young woman from a shattered Georgian-Russian lineage, married in Paris. Zourabichvili would make a career of the terrain she had left behind, becoming France's preeminent Russian authority. Drawing on her work and on his father's obsessive family records, Carrère writes a \"true novel,\" one his mother would never have wanted, spanning four generations, a century of Russian and French history, and taking us right up to the war in Ukraine. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eClear-eyed, alert to the absurdity of truth, and alive to every shadow in a portrait, Carrère does what only Carrère can do: he turns genealogy into narrative velocity, archives into suspense, grief into an engine of thought. At once intimate and geopolitical, tender and ferociously intelligent, \u003ci\u003eKolkhoz \u003c\/i\u003eis Carrère in full command: the master of the moral double take and the deceptively simple sentence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Emmanuel Carrère\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Farrar, Straus and Giroux\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 10\/13\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 560\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.25h x 5.38w x 1.00d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780374621872\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBooklist\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/01\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/14\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 09\/15\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eEmmanuel Carrère\u003c\/b\u003e is a novelist, journalist, screenwriter, and film producer. He is the award-winning, internationally renowned author of \u003ci\u003eV13\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eYoga\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e97,196 Words\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Kingdom\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLimonov\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e The Mustache\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eClass Trip\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Adversary\u003c\/i\u003e (a\u003ci\u003e New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Notable Book), \u003ci\u003eMy Life as a Russian Novel\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eLives Other Than My Own\u003c\/i\u003e, which was awarded the Globe de Cristal for Best Novel in 2010. For \u003ci\u003eLimonov\u003c\/i\u003e, Carrère received the Prix Renaudot and the Prix des Prix in 2011 and the Europese Literatuurprijs in 2013. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eJohn Lambert\u003c\/b\u003e has translated \u003ci\u003eMonsieur\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eReticence\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eSelf-Portrait Abroad\u003c\/i\u003e by Jean-Philippe Toussaint, as well as Emmanuel Carrère's \u003ci\u003eV13\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eYoga\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e97,196 Words\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Kingdom\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eLimonov\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Emmanuel Carrère","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67567738585316,"sku":"9780374621872","price":23.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0611\/9587\/8628\/files\/9780374621872.jpg?v=1791964166","url":"https:\/\/bookandmortar.com\/products\/kolkhoz-emmanuel-carrere-hardcover","provider":"BookandMortar","version":"1.0","type":"link"}