V13. By Emmanuel Carrère. Translated by John Lambert. Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 320 pages; $29. Fern Press; £20 A girl takes a picture from the banks of the River Seine of the illuminated Eiffel Tower in the French national colours red, white and blue in honour of the victims of the terrorist attacks in Paris. (AP... read full story
"I saw that my cheek had been ripped off and was hanging down beside my face. I put my right hand into my mouth to pull out my teeth so that I wouldn't choke on them."