Description
An unsettling, poignant and darkly comic expose of Putin's Russia and European disintegration from the highly acclaimed travel writer
About the Author
Rory MacLean is one of Britain's most expressive and adventurous travel writers. His books - which have been translated into a dozen languages - include the Sunday Times bestseller Stalin's Nose, Under the Dragon and Berlin: Imagine a City, which was named a Book of the Year by the Washington Post.
Reviews
Gripping ... part-travelogue, part contemporary history of Europe ... MacLean is an accomplished writer; his immersive prose crackles with wit and wry humour, and captures scenes and personalities with aplomb -- Daniel Beer * Guardian *
An eye-opening travelogue, filled with tank parades, AK-47s, casual racism, Maseratis, cyber-hackers, kleptocrats and illiberal authoritarians * i *
Moving ... A timely book. It addresses the challenges of a fractious and fractured Europe ... MacLean is a compassionate writer, and he balances his stories of men and women of power ... with those of the dispossessed -- Sara Wheeler * Spectator *
This is a tremendous thing that MacLean is creating; a new kind of history, in several dimensions and innumerable moods, that adds up to - across the span of his books - a great and continuing work of literature -- Jan Morris
A gem of a book, informative, companionable, sometimes funny, and wholly original. MacLean must surely be the outstanding, and most indefatigable, traveller-writer of our time -- John le Carre
No one writes quite like Rory MacLean -- Robert Macfarlane
MacLean combines vivid reportage with unabashed soapboxing. The result is an engrossing travelogue that's both trenchantly observant and deeply felt * Publishers Weekly *
A triumph ... Pravda Ha Ha challenges the reader to decide what is true, what is not ... MacLean paints a convincing portrait of a Europe in turmoil -- Hugh MacDonald * Herald *
Timely * Financial Times *
By turns fascinating and chilling ... MacLean sheds some bleak light on the manoeuvers of post-Soviet Russia and populist, post-truth Europe in the decades since the Wall came down -- Robert Smyth * Geographical *
[An] eye-opening travelogue ... Sometimes darkly funny, often surprising and always compelling -- Tom Hawker * Wanderlust *
With vivid images of cities and landscape and his understanding of history, it's an engrossing, trenchantly observant and thought-provoking read * Choice Magazine *
Book Information
ISBN 9781408896518
Author Rory MacLean
Format Paperback
Page Count 368
Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight(grams) 260g