Conor O¿Clery holds a unique perspective on the former Soviet Union, as resident Irish Times correspondent during the last four years of communism and as a frequent visitor since then, having married into a Russian-Armenian family in Krasnoyarsk. After Moscow he was a foreign correspondent in Washington, Beijing and New York. He has been twice awarded Journalist of the Year, for his dispatches from Moscow and for his reporting of the 9/11 attacks in New York. He is the author of several books including Melting Snow, on the fall of the Soviet Union; The Greening of the White House, about the Clinton presidency, The Billionaire Who Wasn¿t, a biography of the philanthropist Chuck Feeney; and Moscow, December 25, 1991, an account of the last day of the Soviet Union.
Conor O'Clery holds a unique perspective on the former Soviet Union, as resident Irish Times correspondent during the last four years of communism and as a frequent visitor since then, having married into a Russian-Armenian family in Krasnoyarsk. After Moscow he was a foreign correspondent in Washington, Beijing and New York. He has been twice awarded Journalist of the Year, for his dispatches from Moscow and for his reporting of the 9/11 attacks in New York. He is the author of several books including Melting Snow, on the fall of the Soviet Union; The Greening of the White House, about the Clinton presidency, The Billionaire Who Wasn't, a biography of the philanthropist Chuck Feeney; and Moscow, December 25, 1991, an account of the last day of the Soviet Union.
Show moreConor O¿Clery holds a unique perspective on the former Soviet Union, as resident Irish Times correspondent during the last four years of communism and as a frequent visitor since then, having married into a Russian-Armenian family in Krasnoyarsk. After Moscow he was a foreign correspondent in Washington, Beijing and New York. He has been twice awarded Journalist of the Year, for his dispatches from Moscow and for his reporting of the 9/11 attacks in New York. He is the author of several books including Melting Snow, on the fall of the Soviet Union; The Greening of the White House, about the Clinton presidency, The Billionaire Who Wasn¿t, a biography of the philanthropist Chuck Feeney; and Moscow, December 25, 1991, an account of the last day of the Soviet Union.
Conor O'Clery holds a unique perspective on the former Soviet Union, as resident Irish Times correspondent during the last four years of communism and as a frequent visitor since then, having married into a Russian-Armenian family in Krasnoyarsk. After Moscow he was a foreign correspondent in Washington, Beijing and New York. He has been twice awarded Journalist of the Year, for his dispatches from Moscow and for his reporting of the 9/11 attacks in New York. He is the author of several books including Melting Snow, on the fall of the Soviet Union; The Greening of the White House, about the Clinton presidency, The Billionaire Who Wasn't, a biography of the philanthropist Chuck Feeney; and Moscow, December 25, 1991, an account of the last day of the Soviet Union.
Show moreA sweeping memoir telling the story of one ordinary family's remarkable journey from Stalin's Soviet Union to Putin's Russia.
Conor O'Clery holds a unique perspective on the former Soviet Union, as resident Irish Times correspondent during the last four years of communism and as a frequent visitor since then, having married into a Russian-Armenian family in Krasnoyarsk. After Moscow he was a foreign correspondent in Washington, Beijing and New York. He has been twice awarded Journalist of the Year, for his dispatches from Moscow and for his reporting of the 9/11 attacks in New York. He is the author of several books including Melting Snow, on the fall of the Soviet Union; The Greening of the White House, about the Clinton presidency, The Billionaire Who Wasn't, a biography of the philanthropist Chuck Feeney; and Moscow, December 25, 1991, an account of the last day of the Soviet Union.
Conor O'Clery is a legend among foreign correspondents. Over four
decades - in Russia, the Middle East, Africa and Asia - he has
established himself as a voice of wit, close observation, and sane
good sense. His new book will be welcomed by everyone who cares
about good writing, and about the human stories that enable us to
understand the great movements of world history.
*Richard Lloyd Parry, author of Ghosts of the Tsunami*
Conor O'Clery's latest book is a tour de force - a sweeping account
of the turbulent decades of the Soviet Union and the new Russia,
told through the prism of a Russian-Armenian family. The story
features love, politics, murder, wars, and the fracturing of ties,
personal and ethnic, brought about by Stalin and his Kremlin
successors. O'Clery is a gifted writer. His subject is one he knows
well: his wife's father, mother and relatives, as they make their
own sure-footed journey through a treacherous twentieth
century.
*Luke Harding, #1 New York Times bestselling author of
Collusion: How Russia Helped Trump Win the White House*
Highly readable, deeply informed telling of an ordinary,
extraordinary story.
*Sunday Times*
Takes us into the hidden heart of Soviet Russia... an illuminating
combination of history, politics, geography and humanity that's
personal and close... An arresting and evocative story, brought
alive through a host of characters, not least, the vast, hostile,
secretive Russia herself.
*Keggie Carew, author of Dadland*
Transcends the confines of a mere family history... With his easy
humour, engaging style and innate sympathy for the little guy,
O'Clery shows how events and decisions in Moscow affected millions
of Russians in myriad life-changing ways.
*Financial Times*
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