Evan Gershkovich's Prison Memoir Arrives in French Translation
"Ce beau pays maudit. 491 jours dans les geôles de Poutine," the journalist's account of his arrest and detention in Russia, is published by Grasset on 28 October.
Grasset will publish the French translation of Evan Gershkovich's memoir on 28 October, under the title "Ce beau pays maudit. 491 jours dans les geôles de Poutine." The book recounts the Wall Street Journal correspondent's arrest, imprisonment and eventual release by the Russian authorities.
According to Livres Hebdo, the narrative reads not only as a personal account of detention but, in its telling, takes on the shape of a great Russian novel.
The source material gives no further detail on the book's contents, translator or length, and no additional facts are available at this time.
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