V13

A TIMES, NEW STATESMAN and WASHINGTON POST Book of the Year 'Absolutely gripping' GUARDIAN 'A marvel' SUNDAY TIMES 'Magisterial' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 'Extraordinary and generous' WASHINGTON POST 'A gripping testimony of terror and loss' OBSERVER 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.

A TIMES, NEW STATESMAN and WASHINGTON POST Book of the Year 'Absolutely gripping' GUARDIAN 'A marvel' SUNDAY TIMES 'Magisterial' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH 'Extraordinary and generous' WASHINGTON POST 'A gripping testimony of terror and loss' OBSERVER 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.

V13 er kodebetegnelsen for retssagskomplekset efter attentaterne i Paris den 13. november 2015 og indskriver sig som en 365 sider skønlitterær retsreportage, der på en og samme tid er yderst fransk i stil og kontekst og universel. 130 mennesker mistede livet primært på spillestedet Bataclan. Retssagen samler 14 anklagede, 1800 sagsøgere/vidner og 350 advokater. Processen løber i 9 måneder og Carrère følger alle retsmøderne fra tilhørerbænken og aflægger en ugentlig reportage til L'Obs. Nu foreligger hele reportagen som værk med titlen V13 og som et uundgåeligt dokument om terrorismen og dens ofre. Med en ambition om at kunne forklare uden at undskylde. Carrère viser her sit suveræne overblik, stilsikre fortællestil og unikke sans for detaljer og menneskelige følelser. Og ikke mindst et uovertruffent talent for at skrive selv de mest tekniske detaljer frem som stor litteratur. Emmanuel Carrère er en prisvindende fransk forfatter og journalist, der i en årrække har gjort den forkætrede autofiktion til sit varemærke, men på et uhørt højt og yderst interessant niveau. I 2000 udgav han "Modstanderen", den ’virkelige’ historie om Jean-Claude Roman. Roman havde bildt sin familie ind, at han var læge og levede af det, og i stedet for at blive afsløret som svindler foretrak han at slå dem alle ihjel: konen, børnene og sine forældre. Carrère slog for alvor igennem med "Andre liv end mit". Senere fulgte "Limonov".

One of The New York Times ' twelve books to read in November A moving, hard-hitting account of the Paris attacks trial by France's leading nonfiction writer. Nearly every day for ten months, from September 2021 to June 2022, life on the ?le de la Cit? in central Paris came to a standstill. The most expensive and complex trial in French history--featuring twenty men accused of involvement in the 2015 attacks on the Bataclan and other sites across Paris--was underway. More than three hundred lawyers represented thousands of victims and the accused, all of whom were given the chance to testify. The case ran to more than a million pages. And, nearly every day for ten months, Emmanuel Carr?re showed his press pass, walked through a metal detector, and took a seat in a windowless courtroom to bear witness. V13 isn't so much the story of a trial but of the community that formed around it--a city within the city, home to the innocent and the accused, the forgiving and the vengeful, the outspoken and the silent. Carr?re introduces us to lawyers, survivors, family members, and above all the defendants, assembling in painstaking detail a human portrait of the crime. What emerges from these pages is a study of good and evil--and a philosophical journey through the borderlands between the two. Not since Eichmann in Jerusalem has there been a book of this scope and ambition.

One of The New York Times ' twelve books to read in November A moving, hard-hitting account of the Paris attacks trial by France's leading nonfiction writer. Nearly every day for ten months, from September 2021 to June 2022, life on the ?le de la Cit? in central Paris came to a standstill. The most expensive and complex trial in French history--featuring twenty men accused of involvement in the 2015 attacks on the Bataclan and other sites across Paris--was underway. More than three hundred lawyers represented thousands of victims and the accused, all of whom were given the chance to testify. The case ran to more than a million pages. And, nearly every day for ten months, Emmanuel Carr?re showed his press pass, walked through a metal detector, and took a seat in a windowless courtroom to bear witness. V13 isn't so much the story of a trial but of the community that formed around it--a city within the city, home to the innocent and the accused, the forgiving and the vengeful, the outspoken and the silent. Carr?re introduces us to lawyers, survivors, family members, and above all the defendants, assembling in painstaking detail a human portrait of the crime. What emerges from these pages is a study of good and evil--and a philosophical journey through the borderlands between the two. Not since Eichmann in Jerusalem has there been a book of this scope and ambition.