This is a book about yoga. Or no less than it was once.
Emmanuel Carrère is a renowned author. After decades of emotional upheaval, he has begun to live successfully―he is healthy; he works; he loves. He practices meditation, striving to observe the world without evaluating it. In this state of heightened awareness, he sets out for a ten-day silent retreat in the French heartland, leaving his phone, his books, and his daily life at the back of. But he’s also gathering material for his next book, which he thinks will be a pleasant, useful introduction to yoga.
Four days later, there’s a tap on the window: something has happened. Forced to leave the retreat early, he returns to a Paris in crisis. Life is derailed. His city is in turmoil. His work in progress falters. His marriage begins to get to the bottom of, as does his entanglement with another woman. He wavers between opposites―self-destruction and self-keep watch over, sanity and madness, elation and despair. The story he has told about himself falls away. And still, he continues to live.
This is a book about one man’s desire to recuperate, and to be better. It is laced with doubt and animated by the dangerous interplay of fiction and reality. Loving, humorous, harrowing, and profound, Yoga hurls us toward the outer edges of consciousness, where, in the end, we will be able to see things as they truly are.
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