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V13
- Author
- Emmanuel Carrère
- Narrator
- Rory Alexander
- Publisher
- Random House
- Publish Date
- 14 November 2024
- Run Time
- 8 hours 22 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
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A moving, hard-hitting account of the Paris attacks trial by France’s leading non-fiction writer
On 13 November 2015, nine attackers wearing suicide bombs killed 130 people and left hundreds wounded at sites in and around Paris in the deadliest attack on French soil since the Second World War. V13 was the code name for the much-awaited trial of those who helped to carry out these attacks. Lasting nine months, from September 2021 to June 2022, it consisted of 14 defendants, 2,400 plaintiffs, 350 lawyers and a file 53 metres high.
In V13, Emmanuel Carrère follows this landmark trial from its first day to its last, taking us behind the scenes to the lawyers, survivors, family members and the defendants. He assembles, in painstaking and subtle detail, a human portrait of the crime – a study of good and evil, and the philosophical journey through the borderlands between the two.
Over the course of his career, Emmanuel Carrère has reinvented non-fiction writing. In a search for truth in all its guises, he dispenses with the rules of genre, fusing passion, curiosity and a profoundly humane intellect, making him one of the most distinctive and important literary voices today.
‘Forensic and troubling, deeply humane, utterly gripping, a book of singular importance for our times’ PHILIPPE SANDS
‘Brilliant. Clear-eyed, wise and compelling’ PAUL MURRAY
© Emmanuel Carrère 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024
Critics Review
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I’ll read anything by Emmanuel Carrère, a roving intellectual with a curious mind . . . A powerful read
The Times, *Books of the Year*
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Emmanuel Carrère [is] quite possibly France’s best non-fiction writer… [V13 is] a masterpiece
New Statesman, *Books of the Year*
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Extraordinary . . . A lattice of absorbing storylines . . . Absolutely gripping
Guardian
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Carrère’s icy, disclosing style is a marvel . . . In this marvellous and terrifying book, Carrère convinces us that good is not just morally better than evil. Good is actually more interesting than evil, and a harder philosophical problem to solve
Sunday Times
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Extraordinary and generous
Washington Post
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Compelling and richly rendered . . . Carrère is one of the most exciting and formally innovative of current non-fiction writers
Guardian
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A gripping testimony of terror and loss . . . the strength and humanity Carrère brings out makes for a reading experience that is at once humbling and invigorating
Observer
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Magisterial . . . It's a reminder of humanity, and its frailty
Sunday Telegraph
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It is hard to imagine a book emerging that will manage to be more informative, moving or likely to last than Emmanuel Carrère’s V13
Spectator
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A curious but compelling mix of dramatic reconstruction, psychological deliberation and personal reflection
Economist
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Details
- Author
- Emmanuel Carrère
- Narrator
- Rory Alexander
- Duration
- 8 hours 22 minutes
- Release Date
- 14 November 2024
- ISBN
- 9781529935851
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Random House
- Genre
- Terrorism, armed struggle, Crime and criminology, True stories / true accounts of events, Legal history
Synopsis
Brought to you by Penguin.A moving, hard-hitting account of the Paris attacks trial by France’s leading non-fiction writerOn 13 November 2015, nine attackers wearing suicide bombs killed 130 people and left hundreds wounded at sites in and around Paris in the deadliest attack on French soil since the Second World War. V13 was the code name for the much-awaited trial of those who helped to carry out these attacks. Lasting nine months, from September 2021 to June 2022, it consisted of 14 defendants, 2,400 plaintiffs, 350 lawyers and a file 53 metres high.In V13, Emmanuel Carrère follows this landmark trial from its first day to its last, taking us behind the scenes to the lawyers, survivors, family members and the defendants. He assembles, in painstaking and subtle detail, a human portrait of the crime – a study of good and evil, and the philosophical journey through the borderlands between the two.Over the course of his career, Emmanuel Carrère has reinvented non-fiction writing. In a search for truth in all its guises, he dispenses with the rules of genre, fusing passion, curiosity and a profoundly humane intellect, making him one of the most distinctive and important literary voices today.‘Forensic and troubling, deeply humane, utterly gripping, a book of singular importance for our times’ PHILIPPE SANDS‘Brilliant. Clear-eyed, wise and compelling’ PAUL MURRAY© Emmanuel Carrère 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024
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