Emmanuel Carrère

Now a major motion picture starring Daniel Auteuil (Sade, Girl on the Bridge, Jean de Florette) directed by Nicole Garcia (Place Vendome)Acclaimed master of psychological suspense, Emmanuel Carrère, whose fiction John Updike described as "stunning" (The New Yorker) explores the double life of a respectable doctor, …

In his second book to appear in this country, the French novelist Emmanuel Carrere recounts the trials--and mostly the terrors--of a ten-year-old boy named Nicholas. The setting appears harmless enough: as the story opens, Nicholas is being dropped off at a skiing school in the country. The most he has to fear, it …