The Man Without a Face by M Gessen
A brave and revelatory account of how a small-minded, low-level KGB operative came to control the world's largest country and, in an astonishingly short time, destroyed years of progress, making Russia once more a threat to her own people and to the world - now with a new preface
A luminous study -- Luke Harding * Guardian *
Courageous and shocking -- Katy Guest, Books of the Year * Independent on Sunday *
Gessen fearlessly tells the story of the unlikely rise of Vladimir Putin * Big Issue in the North *
A clear, brave book.. Gessen offers intriguing details of the scratching, biting, hair-tearing, undersized, brawling boy Putin, refusing to be bullied in the grubby back yards of Leningrad -- James Meek * Observer *
Gessen's engaging prose combines a native's passion with a mordant wit and caustic understatement that are characteristically Russian -- AD Miller * Daily Telegraph *
Bold, detailed, and eloquent -- David Evans, Books of the Year * Independent on Sunday *
Gessen conveys the atmosphere - whether of the last months of the Soviet Union, the chaotic years of Yeltsin, the strange transfer of the presidency to Putin or the disappointments of his period - more accurately than any recent chronicler of the period -- Mary Dejevsky * Independent *
[A] courageous, enlightening account... Despite the suppression of the media and the murder of critics and political rivals, brave voices like Gessen's, and those before [them], have helped shed some much needed light on Putin's "criminal tyranny" -- Lucy Popescu * Independent on Sunday *
A rivetingly combative biography... utterly chilling * Sunday Telepgraph *
A compelling and exhaustive portrait * Telegraph *
Brilliant -- Edward Lucas * Daily Mail *
Gessen is a talented and versatile journalist -- John Lloyd * Financial Times *
Gessen has written a brave book, demolishing the numerous myths and legends that have accumulated around [their] subject -- Luke Harding * Guardian *
[A] fiercely critical biography -- Anita Singh * Telegraph *
An astonishingly brave and eloquent book -- David Evans * Independent on Sunday *
Courageous and shocking -- Katy Guest, Books of the Year * Independent on Sunday *
Gessen fearlessly tells the story of the unlikely rise of Vladimir Putin * Big Issue in the North *
A clear, brave book.. Gessen offers intriguing details of the scratching, biting, hair-tearing, undersized, brawling boy Putin, refusing to be bullied in the grubby back yards of Leningrad -- James Meek * Observer *
Gessen's engaging prose combines a native's passion with a mordant wit and caustic understatement that are characteristically Russian -- AD Miller * Daily Telegraph *
Bold, detailed, and eloquent -- David Evans, Books of the Year * Independent on Sunday *
Gessen conveys the atmosphere - whether of the last months of the Soviet Union, the chaotic years of Yeltsin, the strange transfer of the presidency to Putin or the disappointments of his period - more accurately than any recent chronicler of the period -- Mary Dejevsky * Independent *
[A] courageous, enlightening account... Despite the suppression of the media and the murder of critics and political rivals, brave voices like Gessen's, and those before [them], have helped shed some much needed light on Putin's "criminal tyranny" -- Lucy Popescu * Independent on Sunday *
A rivetingly combative biography... utterly chilling * Sunday Telepgraph *
A compelling and exhaustive portrait * Telegraph *
Brilliant -- Edward Lucas * Daily Mail *
Gessen is a talented and versatile journalist -- John Lloyd * Financial Times *
Gessen has written a brave book, demolishing the numerous myths and legends that have accumulated around [their] subject -- Luke Harding * Guardian *
[A] fiercely critical biography -- Anita Singh * Telegraph *
An astonishingly brave and eloquent book -- David Evans * Independent on Sunday *
M. GESSEN is the author of several books, among them the Samuel Johnson prize-longlisted The Man Without a Face and Blood Matters: A Journey Along the Genetic Frontier. The recipient of numerous other awards, including a National Book Award for The Future is History, a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Carnegie Fellowship, Gessen lives in New York City.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781803510491 |
| ISBN 10 | 1803510498 |
| Title | The Man Without a Face |
| Author | Masha Gessen |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Granta Publications Ltd |
| Year published | 2023-08-03 |
| Number of pages | 336 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Pushkin House Russian Book Prize 2013 (UK), Long-listed for Samuel Johnson Prize 2012 (UK) |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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