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The Rebel's Clinic The Revolutionary Lives of Frantz Fanon
Adam Shatz
The Man Without a Face
The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin
Masha Gessen
The Man Without a Face is the chilling 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. As a journalist living in Moscow, Masha Gessen experienced this history firsthand, and for The Man Without a Face she has drawn on information and sources no other writer has tapped. Her horrifying and spellbinding account of how this 'faceless' man manoeuvred his way into absolute - and absolutely corrupt - power will stand as a classic of narrative non-fiction.
- First published:
- March 2012
- Published by:
- Granta Books
- Length:
- Hardcover 320 pages
About the author
Masha Gessen is a journalist and the author of several books, most recently Perfect Rigor. She has contributed to Vanity Fair, the New Republic, Granta and Slate, among other publications, and has served as editor of the Russian-language magazine Snob. She lives in Moscow.
