The Wizard of the Kremlin, by Giuliano da Empoli

To understand reality you have to take a long path towards the origin. The evolution of any human-mediated event always leaves clues to be discovered before reaching the hurricane epicenter of everything, where an unintelligible dead calm can hardly be appreciated. The chronicles erect myths and their legends. The stubborn truth appears as a clear contrast as soon as any critical filter is applied.

Faced with invented realities, enlightening fictions. Just what dares to aim this fantastic story by Giuliano da Empoli. A novel that is an approach as unusual as it is accurate to that Russia of today, everyone's uncomfortable neighbor in this increasingly small world of deranged neighbors.

He was known as the sorcerer, the magician of the Kremlin. The enigmatic Vadim Baranov was a reality TV producer before becoming Putin's closest adviser. After his resignation, the legends about him multiply, without anyone being able to distinguish the true from the false. Until one night, he entrusts his story to the narrator of this book.

This fictional tale plunges us into the heart of Russian power, where sycophants and oligarchs engage in open warfare, and where Vadim, now the regime's top manipulator, turns an entire country into a cutting-edge political arena. However, he is not as ambitious as the others: entangled in the increasingly dark and secret workings of the regime he has helped to build, he will do anything to get out guided by the memory of his grandfather, an eccentric aristocrat who survived the revolution. , and the fascinating and ruthless Ksenia, with whom he has fallen in love.

From the Chechnya war to the Crimean crisis through the Sochi Olympic Games, businessmen, Limonov and Kasparov, models and all the symbols of the regime parade through The Wizard of the Kremlin in what is the great novel of today's Russia and a magnificent meditation on power and the fascination with evil and war. A work that turns out to be an intellectual, anthropological and emotional roller coaster in which the author not only puts a great knowledge of political science and contemporary Russia at the service of the story, but also manages to build an exciting novel that immerses the reader in the mind of some characters that exemplify the violence and nonsense of certain political decisions and allows you to get closer and feel the experience of power.

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