作品情報

ロシア権力の暗部を、告白という形で照らし出す。

ヴァディム・バラノフという、現実の政治顧問を思わせる人物を軸に、ロシアの権力構造とその演出を描く。テレビ、宣伝、選挙、戦争が連なる世界を、告白体の語りでたどりながら、権力が物語を作り替えていく過程を浮かび上がらせる。

書籍情報

出版社

Other Press

発売日

2023-11-07

ページ数

304ページ

言語

英語

サイズ

13.21 x 1.96 x 20.19 cm

ISBN-13

9781635423952

ISBN-10

1635423953

価格

3548 JPY

カテゴリ

洋書/Mystery & Thrillers/Thrillers/Spy Stories & Tales of Intrigue

A Best Book of the Year by Financial Times and Bloomberg Filled with real political insight and intrigue, this thrilling novel explores the nature of power through the inner workings of Putin’s regime. Known as the “Wizard of the Kremlin,” the enigmatic Vadim Baranov was a TV producer before becoming a political advisor to Putin, aka “The Czar.” After his resignation from this position, legends about him multiply, with no one able to distinguish truth from fiction. Until one night, when he tells his story to the narrator of this book… He immerses us in the heart of the Russian state, where sycophants and oligarchs have been engaging in open warfare, and where Vadim, now the regime’s main spin doctor, turns an entire country into an avant-garde political stage. Yet Vadim is not as ambitious as the others. Entangled in the increasingly dark secrets of the regime he has helped create, he will do anything to get out, guided by the memory of his grandfather, an eccentric aristocrat who survived the Revolution, and the mesmerizing, merciless Ksenia, whom he has fallen in love with. Giuliano da Empoli, once a senior advisor to Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi, draws on his experience behind the scenes to create an authentic, compelling portrait of power and how it corrupts.

Giuliano da Empoli is an Italian and Swiss writer and political scientist. He was Deputy Mayor for Culture in Florence and a senior advisor to Italian prime minister Matteo Renzi. Since the publication of his first book at age twenty-two, he has published eleven more books on politics and economics. His first novel, The Wizard of the Kremlin , won the Grand Prix du Roman and was a finalist for the Goncourt Prize. It will be translated into more than thirty languages. Willard Wood grew up in France and has translated more than thirty works of fiction and nonfiction from the French. He has won the Lewis Galantière Award for Literary Translation and received a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship in Translation. His recent translations include Camille de Toledo’s Theseus, His New Life (Other Press 2023) and Patrick Boucheron’s Trace and Aura (Other Press 2022). He lives in Norfolk, Connecticut.

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