A Terrible Country: Keith Gessen and Vadim Nikitin
Thursday 21 March 2019, 7 p.m. · 59 minutes![](https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/storage/300_filter/images/7/5/6/2/532657-7-eng-GB/5c6d8ac53d368.jpg 300w, https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/storage/400_filter/images/7/5/6/2/532657-7-eng-GB/5c6d8ac53d368.jpg 400w, https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/storage/800_filter/images/7/5/6/2/532657-7-eng-GB/5c6d8ac53d368.jpg 800w, https://www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk/storage/1200_filter/images/7/5/6/2/532657-7-eng-GB/5c6d8ac53d368.jpg 1200w)
Novelist, journalist and translator Keith Gessen will be at the shop to read from and talk about his latest novel A Terrible Country, published by Fitzcarraldo, which investigates Russia’s past and present through the eyes of a Russian-American who moves from New York to Moscow to care for his elderly grandmother. Man Booker Prize winner George Saunders describes A Terrible Country as ‘A cause for celebration: big-hearted, witty, warm, compulsively readable, earnest, funny, full of that kind of joyful sadness I associate with Russia’. Gessen was in conversation with Vadim Nikitin, Murmansk-born investigator of financial crime in what was once the USSR. Both Gessen and Nikitin are regular contributors to the LRB.
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