Author: Giuliano da Empoli.
They call him the sorcerer, the magician of the Kremlin. The enigmatic Vadim Baranov is Putin’s closest advisor, although he is not a regular advisor: cultured and linked to the artistic avant-garde, he is also an unscrupulous manipulator capable of transforming an entire country into a theatrical stage on which only the leader’s will is represented. But in high places, one false step is often the last, and he soon discovers that the regime he has helped to build can topple him at any moment.
The fictional account of El mago del Kremlin (The Kremlin Magician) plunges the reader into the heart of Russian power, where sycophants and oligarchs are engaged in an all-out war. It is an intellectual, anthropological and emotional rollercoaster that illuminates a unique character, a modern, soulless Machiavelli, as well as a magnificent meditation on the fascination with power, evil and war.
Winner of the Grand Prix de Novel of the Académie Française and the Honoré de Balzac, and finalist for the Goncourt and the Interallié, among others, Giuliano da Empoli has written a splendid novel that has become an overwhelming bestseller in France.
Pages: 336
Publisher: SEIX BARRAL
Binding: Tapa blanda
ISBN: 9788432241932
RPP: 18,90 euros
