The Brothers by Masha Gessen
WINNER OF THE 2026 PULITZER PRIZE FOR OPINION WRITING"A gripping narrative and a stunning piece of investigative journalism... [that] gives us the human side to the story of two young men who must be understood as more than monsters" (Christian Science Monitor)
The National Book Award winning journalist recounts how the American dream went wrong for two immigrants, and the nightmare that resulted
On April 15, 2013, two homemade bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston marathon, killing three people and wounding more than 264 others. In the ensuing manhunt, Tamerlan Tsarnaev died, and his younger brother, Dzhokhar, was captured and brought to trial. Yet even after the guilty verdict and the death sentence, what we didn't know was why. Why did the American Dream go so wrong for two immigrants? How did such a nightmare come to pass?
Acclaimed Russian-American journalist Masha Gessen is uniquely able to tell us. A teenage immigrant themself, they returned to Russia to cover firsthand the transformations that wracked the region from the 1990s on. It is there that Gessen begins their astonishing account of the Tsarnaev brothers, descendants of ethnic Chechens deported to Central Asia in the Stalin era. Following the family in their futile attempts to make a life for themselves in one war-torn locale after another and then, as new émigrés, in an utterly disorienting new world, Gessen reconstructs the brothers' struggle between assimilation and alienation, which incubated a deadly sense of mission and traces how such a split in identity can fuel the metamorphosis into a new breed of homegrown terrorist, with feet on American soil but sense of self elsewhere.
Masha Gessen is a Russian-American journalist and the author of several books, including The Man Without a Face, a national success. Her work has been featured in Vanity Fair, the New York Times, Newsweek, Slate, and a variety of other magazines, and she has won multiple accolades, including the 2013 Media for Liberty Award. She has worked as an editor for a number of periodicals as well as the director of Radio Liberty's Moscow Service. She is based in Moscow.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781594634000 |
| ISBN 10 | 1594634009 |
| Title | The Brothers |
| Author | Masha Gessen |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Penguin Putnam Inc |
| Year published | 2016-05-10 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
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