In the winter of 2004, Emmanuel Carrère and his life companion Ellen spent their vacation in Sri Lanka when the island was hit by a devastating tsunami. They get closer with a young family who had lost their four-year-old daughter in the disaster, and they do not part with them until the end of the stay. On their return, Carrère and Ellen will find out that Ellen's sister - a young judge, mother of three girls - is incurably ill. "Lives Other than My Own" is a moving and deeply human book about life and death, about sickness and poverty, about justice and fairness, but, before all, this is a book about love.
Emmanuel Carrère (born in Paris on December 9, 1957) is a French author, screenwriter and director. He is the son of Louis Carrère d'Encausse and French historian Hélène Carrère d'Encausse.
Carrère studied at the Institut d'Études Politiques de Paris (better known as Sciences Po). Much of his writing, both fiction and nonfiction, centers around the primary themes of the interrogation of identity, the development of illusion and the direction of reality. Several of his books have been made into films; in 2005, he personally directed the film adaptation of his novel La Moustache. He was the president of the jury of the book Inter 2003.
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