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Giuliano da Empoli is an Italian and Swiss writer and political scientist living in France. He was once a senior advisor to Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi. The Wizard of the Kremlin is his debut novel. It has sold more than half a million copies in France, where it also won the Grand Prix du Roman and was a finalist for the Goncourt Prize. It has since gone on to become an international bestseller, being translated into thirty languages across the world.
'A great book, casting light on the creatures that crawl and slither behind the Kremlins walls, on the mineral hardness of Putin, on the chaos engine that is his way of hurting us. Read this book and you will understand the Russian mind-fuck. Read it' - John Sweeney 'A captivating novel that sails close, perhaps too close, to reality' - Financial Times, Books of the Year 'His novel has become a guide - devoured by many western politicians - to the mindset of the Kremlin' - Simon Kuper, Lunch with the FT '""You need to be credible, to get into a characters head and present their point of view... But it has to be entertaining, and it has to be convincing."" His book succeeds on both measures' - Peter Conradi '[One of] the two finest books I read this year... Written from the perspective of Putins chief strategist, [it] details how the privatisations of the 1990s set the scene for the return of the Tsar' - Maurice Glasman
