Kolkhoz

Winner of the Prix Médicis

The award-winning literary nonfiction writer turns to his own family’s archive and unlocks a century of war, obsession, deception, and truth.

The day Emmanuel Carrère is set to fly to Russia for the film adaptation of his book Limonov, a “special military operation” begins in Ukraine. Unease ripples across the world. Nevertheless, Carrère goes and, finding himself called to report on the unfolding events and revisiting fond family memories, extends his stay. One cen...