A kaleidoscopic portrait to understand the largest country in the world through its people
Manel Alías has worked for more than seven years as a correspondent under Vladimir Putin's regime. During this period of news and reports, he has travelled the vastness of Russia, collecting extraordinary stories that could not fit into a chronicle but that help to understand the country in its complexity.

A five-year-old girl who watched in amazement, while planting potatoes, the landing of Yuri Gagarin, the first cosmonaut of humanity. The 'radioactive' DJ who made people forget with his music the certain death that pursued the liquidators of Chernobyl. The cleaning woman who became the first mayor of a small town. The beautiful image of the grandmother who skates every day on Lake Baikal. The peculiarities and the harshness of life in the coldest inhabited area on the planet...

With a reporter's eye, the author tracks down the major themes that characterize this country of war and poetry, but also the daily events closer to home, those that affect his neighbors and himself, and that are equally fascinating to readers. History, literature, politics, tradition, extreme climate, war and an authentic, unique beauty, made of words and witnesses. This is the raw material on which Manel Alías builds the multifaceted story of a mind-blowing territory and people.