V13: Chronicle of a Trial
ONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST'S TEN BEST BOOKS OF 2024

"Extraordinary . . . Absolutely gripping." —Chris Power, The Guardian

"Moving and masterful . . . [A] magnificent book." —Becca Rothfeld, The Washington Post

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 Île de la Cité 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 Carrère 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. Carrère 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.

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V13: Chronicle of a Trial
ONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST'S TEN BEST BOOKS OF 2024

"Extraordinary . . . Absolutely gripping." —Chris Power, The Guardian

"Moving and masterful . . . [A] magnificent book." —Becca Rothfeld, The Washington Post

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 Île de la Cité 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 Carrère 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. Carrère 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.

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V13: Chronicle of a Trial

V13: Chronicle of a Trial

by Emmanuel Carrère
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ONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST'S TEN BEST BOOKS OF 2024

"Extraordinary . . . Absolutely gripping." —Chris Power, The Guardian

"Moving and masterful . . . [A] magnificent book." —Becca Rothfeld, The Washington Post

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 Île de la Cité 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 Carrère 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. Carrère 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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780374615703
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date: 11/19/2024
Pages: 320
Sales rank: 106,643
Product dimensions: 8.30(w) x 5.40(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Emmanuel Carrère, novelist, filmmaker, journalist, and biographer, is the award-winning internationally renowned author of 97,196 Words, The Adversary (a New York Times Notable Book), Lives Other Than My Own, My Life As A Russian Novel, Class Trip, and The Mustache. Carrère lives in Paris.
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