Name: Imperium
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Author: Ryszard Kapuściński
ISBN: 9780679747802

Type

Physical Book

Author

Ryszard Kapuściński

Publisher

Vintage

Year

1995

Language

English

Pages

352

Format

Paperback

Weight

ISBN

067974780X

ISBN13

9780679747802

Edition No.

Synopsis "Imperium "

The Polish journalist whose The Soccer War and The Emperor are counted as classics of contemporary reportage now bears witness inImperium to the disintegration of the Soviet Union. This magisterial book combines childhood memory with unblinking journalism, a radar for the truth with a keen appreciation of the absurd.Imperium begins with Ryszard Kapuscinski's account of the Soviet occupation of his town in eastern Poland in 1939. It culminates fifty years later, with a forty-thousand-mile journey that takes him from the haunted corridors of the Kremlin to the abandonedgulag of Kolyma, from a miners' strike in the arctic circle to a panic-stricken bus ride through the war-torn Caucasus.Out of passivity and paranoia, ethnic hatred and religious fanaticism that have riven two generations of Eastern Europeans, Kapuscinski has composed a symphony for a collapsing empirea work that translates history into the hopes and sufferings of the human beings condemned to live it.. NOTA: El libro no está en español, sino en inglés.

Ryszard Kapuściński

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Ryszard Kapuściński (Poland, 1932-2007) was a foreign correspondent until 1981. Since 1987, Anagrama has published The Polish Jungle, Black Stars, Christ with a Rifle on His Shoulder, Another Day of Life, The Emperor, The Soccer War, The Shah, The Empire, Ebony, Cynics are Not Suitable for This Profession, Lapidarium IV, Today's World, Travels with Herodotus, and Encounter with the Other. Among his numerous awards is the Prince of Asturias Award for Communication and Humanities, awarded in 2003.

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