The Man Without a Face by Masha 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
Courageous and shocking -- Katy Guest, Books of the Year * Independent on Sunday *
A luminous study -- Luke Harding * Guardian *
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 her, 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 her subject -- Luke Harding * Guardian *
[A] fiercely critical biography -- Anita Singh * Telegraph *
An astonishingly brave and eloquent book -- David Evans * Independent on Sunday *
A luminous study -- Luke Harding * Guardian *
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 her, 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 her subject -- Luke Harding * Guardian *
[A] fiercely critical biography -- Anita Singh * Telegraph *
An astonishingly brave and eloquent book -- David Evans * Independent on Sunday *
MASHA GESSEN is a journalist who has written for Slate, the New Republic, the New York Times and other publications. She is the author of several books, including Dead Again, Two Babushkas and Blood Matters: A Journey Along the Genetic Frontier. She lives in Moscow.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781847084231 |
| ISBN 10 | 1847084230 |
| Title | The Man Without a Face |
| Author | Masha Gessen |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Granta Books |
| Year published | 2013-01-03 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Pushkin House Russian Book Prize 2013 (UK), Long-listed for Samuel Johnson Prize 2012 (UK) |
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