Book on Suspects in Boston Bombings to Be Written by Masha Gessen
The first major book on the Tsarnaev brothers, the suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings, has been acquired by Riverhead Books, the publisher said on Wednesday.
It will be written by the Russian-American journalist Masha Gessen, the author of “The Man Without a Face,†a biography of Vladimir Putin. Ms. Gessen is well qualified to write the book: she is fluent in Russian and English, has reported from Chechnya and emigrated to the Boston area when she was a teenager.
According to the publisher, the book, which is yet to be titled, will “reconstruct the struggle that ensued for each of the brothers between assimilation and alienation, and their metamorphosis into a new breed of home-grown terrorist, with their feet on American soil but their loyalties elsewhere, a split in identity that opened them to a deadly sense of mission.â€
A spokeswoman for Riverhead, Jynne Martin, said Ms. Gessen was leaving her job at Radio Liberty to concentrate exclusively on the book on the brothers â€" Tamerlan, 26, who died after being shot by the police and run over by a vehicle driven by his fleeing brother, Dzhokhar, 19, who is being held in a prison hospital.
No publication date has been set.
