THE SHOWMAN

AN INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER An intense evocative portrait of one of the most remarkable figures of our era ANNE APPLEBAUM This is the Zelensky book we ve been waiting for CATHERINE BELTONTHE TIMES A BEST BOOK OF 2024 NEXT YEAR S TOP READSGUARDIAN BOOKS TO LOOK OUT FOR IN 2024INDEPENDENT A BOOK OF THE MONTHWRITTEN WITH UNPRECEDENTED ACCESS THIS IS THE FIRST INSIDE INTIMATE ACCOUNT OF THE RUSSIAN INVASION OF UKRAINE FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF PRESIDENT ZELENSKY AND HIS TEAM Based on four years of reporting extensive travels with President Zelensky to the front and dozens of interviews with him his wife his friends and enemies his advisers ministers and military commanders The Showman tells an intimate and eye opening story of the President s evolution from a slapstick actor to a symbol of resilience revealing how he managed to rally the world s democracies behind his cause Clear eyed about the President s early failures as a peacemaker and his willingness to silence political dissent the book offers a complex picture of a man struggling to break what he sees as a historical cycle of oppression that began generations before he was born Even as the war drags on Zelensky lays out his vision for its future course and through his actions demonstrates hi