{"product_id":"the-brothers-the-road-to-an-american-tragedy-paperback","title":"The Brothers: The Road to an American Tragedy - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMasha Gessen\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE 2026 PULITZER PRIZE FOR OPINION WRITING \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"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\" (\u003ci\u003eChristian Science Monitor\u003c\/i\u003e) \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe National Book Award winning journalist recounts how the American dream went wrong for two immigrants, and the nightmare that resulted \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn 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? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAcclaimed Russian-American journalist Masha Gessen is uniquely able to tell us. A teenage immigrant themself, they returned to Russia to cover firsthand the transformations that wracked the region from the 1990s on. It is there that Gessen begins their 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, Gessen reconstructs the brothers' struggle between assimilation and alienation, which incubated a deadly sense of mission and 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMasha Gessen \u003c\/b\u003eis a Russian-American journalist who is the author of several books, most recently the national bestseller \u003ci\u003eThe Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin \u003c\/i\u003e(Riverhead, 2012) and \u003ci\u003eWords Will Break Cement: The Passion of Pussy Riot \u003c\/i\u003e(Riverhead, 2014). Her work has appeared in the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eVanity Fair\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003e The New York Review of Books, Slate\u003c\/i\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 320\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 8.1 x 5.4 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 10, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53476541137203,"sku":"9781594634000","price":27.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0990\/0746\/3731\/files\/MVqd2oI5eY9781594634000.webp?v=1781625020","url":"https:\/\/rbangel-store.myshopify.com\/products\/the-brothers-the-road-to-an-american-tragedy-paperback","provider":"The Celestial Starlit Phoenix ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}