![]() ![]() Young liberals and revolutionaries condemn the corruption of Putin’s capitalism, and protests against Putin’s regime crop up around the city. ![]() The Moscow Andrei returns to is “terrifyingly expensive,” but this reads as prosperity. If anything, it will be different.Įxcept it isn’t quite as different as Andrei would have hoped. Anything would be better than his life in New York-a life that has found him recently single, desperate for money, and stagnant in his dissertation. When 33-year-old professor Andrei Kaplan returns to Moscow in 2008 to live with and care for his grandmother, he has high hopes for the trip. Keith Gessen’s incisive and sardonic A Terrible Country deals head-on with the disconnect between expectation and reality. Known connections to this year’s contenders: “My one conflict is My Sister, the Serial Killer-we chose it for the BuzzFeed Book Club in January.” She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two fat cats. Her writing has also appeared in GQ, the Guardian, the Atlantic, and elsewhere. Arianna Rebolini is the books editor at BuzzFeed News, and co-author of the novel Public Relations. ![]()
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