NOTHING IS TRUE AND EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE: THE SURREAL HEART OF THE NEW RUSSIA

Book ID/图书代码： 11701214B73991

English Summary/英文概要： A snapshot of Moscow in the noughties. In the mode of a contemporary Isherwood, Peter Pomerantsev delineates a vibrant cast of characters, all of them real people, including an oligarch who thinks he’s the Jewish messiah (and whose enemies keep on ending up dead or in prison), suicidal supermodels, a gangster who wants to be the next Spielberg, a prostitute with a Jihadi sister, and tycoons who make a politician out of a bum they find on the street. But of course the central character is Moscow itself, in all its self-destructive glory, at the height of the oil boom, while in the background the country sinks into a bizarre post-modern dictatorship.

This is a world erupting with new money and new power, changing so fast it breaks all sense of reality, where life is seen as a whirling, glamorous masquerade where identities can be switched and all values are changeable. It is home to a new form of authoritarianism, far subtler than 20th century strains, and which is rapidly expanding to challenge the global order.

An extraordinary book - one which is as powerful and entertaining as it is troubling - NOTHING IS TRUE AND EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE offers a wild ride into this political and ethical vacuum.

Chinese Summary/中文概要： 本书描绘了21世界头十年间的莫斯科，作者刻画了一系列鲜明的真实人物，包括：自认为是犹太人的弥赛亚的寡头（他的敌人们纷纷死亡或入狱），想自杀的超模，希望成为下一个斯皮尔伯格的黑帮成员，妹妹是圣战分子的妓女，一群将街头流浪汉变成政客的大亨……当然，全书的中心还是莫斯科自身的兴衰，其所在的国家正慢慢陷入一种奇怪的后现代独裁。

这是一个充斥着新钱和新权力的世界，变化太快，打破了所有的现实感。生活就像是一场华丽的化装舞会，身份可以转换，价值瞬息万变。莫斯科正在酝酿一种新型的独裁主义，比20世纪的思潮更加微妙，正在迅速扩张，挑战全球秩序。

这是一部非凡的作品，有力、有趣，发人深省，带领读者进入这政治和道德的真空地带。（LYR）

Awards/获奖情况：“读过这部由电视制作人创作的令人大开眼界的回忆录，读者会发现，你所知的有关俄罗斯的一切都是错误的……这部有关俄罗斯文化的时髦作品令读者目眩神迷、大开眼界、深陷其中。”——Kirkus

“Peter Pomeranzev，普京时代的俄罗斯最聪明的观察者之一，为读者描绘了一个沉迷于幻想和光鲜的国家，表面之下隐藏着危险、毫无道德的内核。本书是一部令人又兴奋又恐惧的作品。”——Anne Applebaum，普利策奖非虚构类奖项得主

**An Amazon.com Best Book of the Month, November 2014**
**An Amazon.com Best Book 2014 History Category**

NOTHING IS TRUE AND EVERYTHING IS POSSIBLE, Peter Pomerantsev’s thrilling portrait of modern Russia, has won the Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize.

“Everything you know about Russia is wrong, according to this eye-opening, mind-bending memoir of a TV producer caught between two cultures… the stylish rendering of the Russian culture, which both attracts and appalls the author, will keep the reader captivated.”—Kirkus, STARRED

"Sometimes horrifying but always compelling, this book exposes the bizarre reality hiding beneath the facade of a ‘youthful, bouncy, glossy country.’"—Publishers Weekly

“A riveting portrait of the new Russia with all its corruption, willful power and spasms of unforgettable, poetic glamor. I couldn’t put it down.”—Tina Brown

“Peter Pomeranzev, one of the most brilliant observers of Putin’s Russia, describes a country obsessed with illusion and glamor, but with a dangerous, amoral core beneath the surface. Nothing is True and Everything is Possible is an electrifying, terrifying book.”—Anne Applebaum, author of Gulag and Iron Curtain, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction

About the Author/作者介绍： Peter Pomerantsev，有着俄罗斯血统的英国电视制作人，非虚构类作品作家。在苏联出生，成年后回到莫斯科居住了10年。长期为《伦敦书评》《新闻周刊》杂志写稿。现居住在伦敦。本书是他的第一部图书作品。

Peter Pomerantsev is a British television producer and non-fiction writer of Russian origin. He was born in the Soviet Union and later returned in adulthood to live in Moscow for ten years. He is a regular contributor to the London Review of Books and Newsweek Magazine, and lives in London. This is his first book.

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Rights Status/版权销售情况：Simplified Chinese/简体中文：AVAILABLE(到期可授)

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Sales in other countries/其他国家销售情况：UK: Faber (pub February 2015); US: Public Affairs (pub November 2014); Arabic: Arab Scientific; China: Beijing Imaginist Time Culture Co. Ltd.; Czech Republic: Premedia; Estonia: Tanapaev; Finland: Like; France: Editions Saint Simon; Georgia: Radarami; Germany: DVA; Holland: Hollands Diep; Hungary: Europa; Japan: Keio University Press; Lithuania: Sofoklis; Poland: Czarne; Serbia: Laguna; Spain: RBA; Sweden: Ordfront; Taiwan: Linking; Ukraine: Ukraine Catholic University Press.

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