The Brothers: The Road to an American Tragedy

A vital story for our era: How the American dream went wrong for two immigrants, and the nightmare that resulted.

Zusatztext 79901815 Informationen zum Autor Masha Gessen is a Russian-American journalist who is the author of several books, most recently the national bestseller The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin (Riverhead, 2012) and Words Will Break Cement: The Passion of Pussy Riot (Riverhead, 2014). Her work has appeared in the New Yorker , Vanity Fair , The New York Times , The New York Review of Books, Slate , and many other publications, and has received numerous awards, most recently the 2013 Media for Liberty Award. She has served as the editor of several publications and as director of Radio Liberty's Russia Service. She lives in New York. Klappentext Look out for Masha Gessen's new book! THE FUTURE IS HISTORY! coming October 2017"A gripping narrative and a stunning piece of investigative journalism [that] gives us the human side to the story of two young men who must be understood as more than monsters" (Christian Science Monitor)On April 15! 2013! two homemade bombs exploded near the finish line of the Boston marathon! killing three people and wounding more than 264 others. In the ensuing manhunt! Tamerlan Tsarnaev died! and his younger brother! Dzhokhar! was captured and brought to trial. Yet even after the guilty verdict and the death sentence! what we didn't know was why. Why did the American Dream go so wrong for two immigrants? How did such a nightmare come to pass? Acclaimed Russian-American journalist Masha Gessen is uniquely able to tell us. A teenage immigrant herself! she returned to Russia to cover firsthand the transformations that wracked the region from the 1990s on. It is there that she begins her astonishing account of the Tsarnaev brothers! descendants of ethnic Chechens deported to Central Asia in the Stalin era. Following the family in their futile attempts to make a life for themselves in one war-torn locale after another and then! as new émigrés! in an utterly disorienting new world! she reconstructs the brothers' struggle between assimilation and alienation! which incubated a deadly sense of mission. And she traces how such a split in identity can fuel the metamorphosis into a new breed of homegrown terrorist! with feet on American soil but sense of self elsewhere. ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| CAST OF CHARACTERS ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||| THE TSARNAEV FAMILY The Brothers: Tamerlan, wife Karima (formerly Katherine Russell), daughter Zahira; and Dzhokhar (later Jahar) Parents: Anzor and Zubeidat Paternal grandparents: Zayndy and Liza Paternal uncles, aunts, and cousins: Ayndy; Malkan and son Husein; Maret; Alvi, wife Zhanar, children Aindy and Luiza; Ruslan, first wife Samantha Fuller, father-in-law Graham Fuller Sisters: Bella, husband Rizvan, son Ramzan; Ailina, husband Elmirza, son Ziaudy Cousin: Jamal Tsarnaev KYRGYZSTAN Friends and neighbors: Semyon and Alladin Abaev, Anzor's closest friends; Badrudi and Zina Tsokaev, neighbors and advisors; Alaudin and Aziz Batukaev, organized-crime bosses; Raisa Batukaeva, next-door neighbor and unofficial Chechen community leader; Ruslan Zakriev, owner of amusement park and official leader of Chechen community; Yakha Tsokaeva and Madina, friends in Bishkek, the capital School personnel: Lubov Shulzhenko, Tamerlan's principal; Natalya Kurochkina, Tamerlan's grade-school teacher DAGESTAN Gasan Gasanaliyev, imam of Makhachkala's Kotrov Street mosque Magomed Kartashov, Tamerlan's second cousin, head of Union of the Just Mohammed Gadzhiev, Kartashov's deputy Kheda Saratova, human rights advocate BOSTON AREA Other Cheche...

Named a Best Book of the Year by Time Magazine

Praise for The Brothers:

“Remarkable… reminiscent of Lawrence Wright's The Looming Tower… Rather than the story of two lone-wolf jihadists, determined to wage war on their adopted country, the marathon bombing becomes a saga of both the Tsarnaev family and contemporary U.S. culture, in which all too often terror provokes an unreasonable response…For Gessen, the issue is not guilt or innocence…more essential is what the Tsarnaevs and their story tells us about who we have become. That she makes the case with grace and passion, while also basing it on rigorous reporting, is the triumph of the book” —Los Angeles Times

"Straightforward and captivating." —Janet Napolitano, The New York Times Book Review

“Russian-American journalist Masha Gessen’s passionate, opinionated, deeply reported exploration of the long road that led the Tsarnaev brothers to commit the Boston Marathon bombing. She traces the family’s history from Chechnya to a precarious Boston-area immigrant demi-monde, asking urgent questions and avoiding simple answers.” —Time

“For American readers, most of whom know little of the Chechen story, the gut-wrenching clarity of Gessen’s account is a gift. Her prose is spare and highly polished, evoking the melancholy of the Tsarnaevs’s homeland...Gessen demonstrates the fragmentation within communities when fear and suspicion take root, and she shows how tactics used to fight terrorism risk degrading the ideals we aim to protect…[Her] tenacious reporting commands our attention and makes “The Brothers” essential to understanding how the heartbreak here in Boston fits into the endless heartache of this world.” —The Boston Globe

“A powerfully compelling portrait… Gessen is uniquely suited to tell the Tsarnaev story: She moved to Boston as a teenage Russian immigrant herself, and, as a result, her observations about what immigrants experience carry specific gravity…No book could ever fully explain why someone would choose to murder innocent people, but Gessen comes as close as we'll ever get. Much as Truman Capote did in his classic "In Cold Blood," Gessen offers compassion for those whose acts are most contemptible, and her explanation of what happened is as complex and as simple as it is to be human. And that is truly frightening.”  —Chicago Tribune 

"Stunning piece of reporting. An instant classic." —Lev Grossman (via Twitter) 

“A Russian-speaking immigrant in Boston, journalist Masha Gessen might be uniquely qualified to investigate Boston Marathon bombers Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. In The Brothers, she writes with sophistication and nuance about their family’s complicated, nomadic existence… an enthralling and illuminating read.” —Minneapolis Star Tribune, Fave of the Week  

“Extraordinary… Gessen, who traveled the globe in search of the secrets of the Tsarnaev family, has produced both a gripping narrative and a stunning piece of investigative journalism… [She] gives us the human side to the story of two young men who must be understood as more than monsters.” —Christian Science Monitor

“This is a story that no one wanted to hear in the days and months after the bombing...Many Americans still may not care to hear it, but that would be too bad, because [The Brothers] is one of the best books I’ve ever read about terrorism and the immigrant experience in America… part social history, part travelog (she traversed the Caucasus and Central Asia while reporting it), and part forensic on family and cultural dysfunction…Gessen wanders among these people, and approaches them with empathy and dark wit... a student of state and stateless terror, [she] is excellent on the varieties of fear it engenders.” &…

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