He was known as the Wizard of the Kremlin. The enigmatic Vadim
Baranov was a TV producer beforebecoming political advisor to
Putin. After he resigns from this position, legends about
himmultiply, without anyone being able to distinguish truth from
fiction.Until one night, he tellshis story to the narrator of this
book... Welcome to the heart of Russian power, where sycophants and
oligarchs have been engaging in openwarfare, and where Vadim, now
the regime's main spin doctor, turns an entire country into
anavant-garde political stage. Yet Vadim is not as ambitious as the
others.Entangled in theincreasingly dark secret workings of the
regime he has contributed to build, he will do anything toget out,
guided by the memory of his grandfather, an eccentric aristocrat
who survived theRevolution, and the mesmerizing, merciless Ksenia,
whom he has fallen in love with. From the war in Chechnya to the
invasion of Ukraine, The Wizard of the Kremlin is a great novel
oncontemporary Russia, and a sobering meditation on power, which
takes the readerbehind the scenes of the Putin era.
Pokračovanie úspešnej trilógie Pán Prsteňov, v ktorom sa zavŕši
príbeh putovania hobita Froda k Puklinám osudu a vojny, ktorá
zavládla v Stredozemi. Knihu preložil Otakar Kořínek.
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