Esta tierra hermosa y maldita : Una historia rusa

In 2023, while working as a correspondent in Moscow, Evan Gershkovich was arrested by the feared FSB, successor to the KGB, and falsely accused of espionage, becoming the first Western journalist convicted on such charges since the Cold War. After 491 days in prison, he was released in the largest prisoner exchange between Russia and the United States. In this gripping memoir, Gershkovich recounts the story of his arrest and his life in prison. Beyond his confinement, he describes his relationship with Russia—his family's country of origin—the years he lived there, and the hardening of the regime after the invasion of Ukraine. The result is a powerful and compelling journalistic memoir that also serves as an essential narrative essay on Putin's Russia and the new Cold War.