As a writer, Carr re is straight berserk Junot D azIn this non-fiction novel road trip, confession, and erotic tour de force Emmanuel Carr re pursues two consuming obsessions: the disappearance of his grandfather amid suspicions that he was a Nazi collaborator in the Second World War; and a violently passionate affair with a woman that he loves but which ends in destruction. Moving between Paris and Kotelnich, a grisly post-Soviet town, Carr re weaves his story into a travelogue of a journey inward, travelling fearlessly into the depths of his tortured psyche.