The Adversary


Author: Emmanuel Carrère
Rating: 4/5

Fantastic book by Carrère, it had me completely absorbed into the very short read.
It goes on effortlessly, and recounts the meta-narration of the writing on a book on the subject of a unexpected murder of a family by its head.

The reader is so drawn into the narration that one feels darkly things and thinks darkly thoughts, because often it takes on the point of view of the culprit.

It is written in a way that made me believe it was a work of fiction, only to discover later that it was the chronicle of murders that really happened.

If you go in blind, it is a once in a lifetime experience that will have you completely hooked.

I will not spoil anything else.

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