Masha Gessen: 14 books
Ester and Ruzya
How My Grandmothers Survived Hitler's War and Stalin's Peace
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2008
In this “extraordinary family memoir,”* the National Book Award–winning author of The Future Is History reveals the story of her two grandmothers, who defied Fascism and Communism during a time when tyranny reigned.
*The New York Times Book Review
In the 1930s, as waves of war and...
The Brothers
The Road to an American Tragedy
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2015
National Book Award winner Masha Gessen tells an important story for our era: 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...
Blood Matters
From BRCA1 to Designer Babies, How the World and I Found Ourselves in the Future of the Gene
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2009
A National Book Award winner’s personal journey through the ethical dilemmas and unsettling choices raised by the new frontier of DNA testing.
Several years after Masha Gessen’s mother died of breast cancer, she discovered she too had the BRCA1 gene mutation, which predisposes women to...
The Man Without a Face
The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2012
National Book Award winner Masha Gessen's biography of a ruthless man's ascent to near-absolute power.
The Man Without a Face is the chilling account of how a low- level, small-minded KGB operative ascended to the Russian presidency and, in an astonishingly short time, destroyed years of progress...
Words Will Break Cement
The Passion of Pussy Riot
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2014
From National Book Award winner Masha Gessen, the heroic story of Pussy Riot, who resurrected the power of truth in a society built on lies.
On February 21, 2012, five young women entered the Cathedral of Christ the Savior in Moscow. In neon-colored dresses, tights, and balaclavas, they performed...
Poutine
L'homme sans visage
Language: French
Release Date: February 29, 2012
Comment Vladimir Poutine, un ancien agent du KGB de peu d’envergure, a-t-il pu devenir en si peu de temps l’un des dirigeants les plus autoritaires de la planète, mettant à mal les efforts de son pays sur la voie de la démocratie ? Car si Vladimir Poutine accède au pouvoir en 1999, c’est...
The Future Is History
How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
**WINNER OF THE 2017 NATIONAL BOOK AWARD IN NONFICTION
FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARDS
WINNER OF THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY'S HELEN BERNSTEIN BOOK AWARD
NAMED A BEST BOOK OF 2017 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW, LOS ANGELES TIMES, WASHINGTON POST, BOSTON...
Perfect Rigor
A Genius and the Mathematical Breakthrough of the Century
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2009
A gripping and tragic tale that sheds rare light on the unique burden of genius
In 2006, an eccentric Russian mathematician named Grigori Perelman solved the Poincare Conjecture, an extremely complex topological problem that had eluded the best minds for over a century. A prize of one million...
by Masha Gessen
Language: Dutch
Release Date: March 8, 2012
Language: Dutch
Release Date: March 8, 2012
Een onthullende biografie over de machtigste man in 's werelds grootste land Als Vladimir Poetin in 1999 de zieke en impopulaire Boris Jeltsin opvolgt, wordt de onbekende KGB-agent die altijd in de schaduw stond en droomde van wereldmacht plotseling een publiek figuur. Poetin krijgt de controle over...
El hombre sin rostro
El sorprendente ascenso de Vladímir Putin
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 24, 2012
La fascinante historia de cómo un agente mediocre del KGB llegó a la presidencia de Rusia, deshizo años de avances y convirtió a su país de nuevo en una amenaza para sus ciudadanos y para el mundo.
Por la autora galardonada con el National Book Award de Nonfiction 2017.
Desde su...
I fratelli Tsarnaev
Una moderna tragedia americana
Language: Italian
Release Date: March 16, 2017
Il 15 aprile 2013, al traguardo della Maratona di Boston, due bombe rudimentali provocano la morte di tre persone e il ferimento di altre 264. Responsabili delle esplosioni due fratelli, Tamerlan e Jahar Tsarnaev, sedicenti jadisti di origine cecena. Tamerlan muore in uno scontro a fuoco con la polizia...
Perfect Rigor
Storia di un genio e della più grande conquista matematica del secolo
Language: Italian
Release Date: August 30, 2018
Nel 2002 un matematico russo, Grigorij Perel’man, risolse uno dei sette “problemi del Millennio”: la Congettura di Poincaré. Fu un risultato clamoroso, che mise in subbuglio la comunità matematica mondiale. Ma dopo anni di dedizione assoluta, quasi monacale, alla ricerca, Perel’man respinse...
by Masha Gessen
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 21, 2018
Language: Spanish
Release Date: June 21, 2018
Un retrato de la vida de Vladímir Putin antes de ascender al poder.
Autobiografía de un matón relata la primera etapa vital de Vladímir Putin antes de convertirse en presidente de Rusia. Putin nació en 1952 en Leningrado, una ciudad totalmente empobrecida, y pasó su vida escolar bajo...
Where the Jews Aren't
The Sad and Absurd Story of Birobidzhan, Russia's Jewish Autonomous Region
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2016
From the acclaimed author of The Man Without a Face, the previously untold story of the Jews in twentieth-century Russia that reveals the complex, strange, and heart-wrenching truth behind the familiar narrative that begins with pogroms and ends with emigration.
In 1929, the Soviet government...