The unauthorized autobiography of Julian Assange is published in Russian

The publication of the book in Russian is scheduled for September 11, 2012.
This is a joint project of the Alpina Business Books and Mann, Ivanov and Ferber publishing houses.

The text of the biography was written by Andrew O'Hagan based on a series of interviews with Assange. After a 50-hour collaboration and the appearance of a draft version of the book, the founder of WikiLeaks accused the publisher of violating the terms of the concluded contract and stated that he intended to terminate the agreement. Julian decided that the text of the book being prepared could give an additional reason to the American prosecutor's office - for the requirements of issuing Assange to the United States authorities - and tried to terminate the contract with Canongate Books, but without success ...

According to the publishers, Assange received 1.6 (in other versions 1.5) million dollars as a fee for his autobiography. But Julian had to spend this money on legal costs, and he could not return the fee. Therefore, the contract signed on December 20, 2010, the publishing house decided not to terminate.
As a result, Canongate Books published the “draft” version of the book, which was published with the title “Julian Assange: The Unauthorized Autobiography”.

We do not agree with the assessment he gave the book. In her, in our opinion, Julian is revealed as a man completely committed to the truth, and this clarifies a lot in his activities. He repeatedly expressed the wish that the book was well written. We share this opinion and consider the book quite worthy of our readers.
- stated the publisher in the preface

Assange statement posted on the Julian Assange “autobiography” by Canongate on WikiLeaks: Statement on the Unauthorized,

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On the page of the publishing house "Mann, Ivanov and Ferber" you can read the abstract, and also download:
Table of Contents (in pdf format)
From a British publisher (PDF)
Chapter 1. Single Conclusion (PDF)
Chapter 2. Magnetic Island (PDF)
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An article on Lenta.ru is also devoted to this news: The story of a big leak with a fragment from a book.

PS
Read laid out in free access.
The first chapter recalled Limonov's “prison” texts. The second is “My family and other animals” by Gerald Durrell. Entertaining Fiction. I think I would swallow the whole book in the evening. I cannot assess the merits of the original text, but the translation does not cause cognitive burrs.

From what I wanted to quote:

I was always drawn to the books. Books and magnets. My grandfather remembers how I came to summer school with a bag full of books, among which lay a thick biography of Albert Einstein. Because of this inclination, I could well hate me, but what to do with the habit of meditating? It is either there or not.

Interestingly, the date of September 11th is a hint? ..