From the acclaimed, award-winning author Emmanuel Carrère,Lives Other Than My Own: A Memoir is an act of generous imagination that unflinchingly records devastating loss and, equally vividly, the wealth of human solace that follows in its wake.Selected by theNew York Times as one of the 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 YearsIn Sri Lanka, a tsunami sweeps a child out to sea, her grandfather helpless against the onrushing water. In France, a young woman succumbs to illness, leavi