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Another Day of Lifeby Ryszard KapuscinskiISBN 0330298445 (0-330-29844-5)
Softcover, Pan Macmillan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Another Day of Life'Book summary:In 1975, Angola was tumbling into pandemonium; everyone who could was packing crates, desperate to abandon the beleaguered colony. With his trademark bravura, Ryszard Kapuscinski went the other way, begging his was from Lisbon and comfort to Luandaonce famed as Africa's Rio de Janeiroand chaos.
Angola, a slave colony later given over to mining and plantations, was a promised land for generations of poor Portuguese. It had belonged to Portugal since before there were English-speakers in North America. After the collapse of the fascist dictatorship in Portugal in 1974, Angola was brusquely cut loose, spurring the catastrophe of a still-ongoing civil war. Kapuscinski plunged right into the middle of the drama, driving past thousands of haphazardly placed check-points, where using the wrong shibboleth was a matter of life and death; recording his imporessions of the young soldiersfrom Cuba, Angola, South Africa, Portugalfighting a nebulous war with global repercussions; and examining the peculiar brutality of a country surprised and divided by its newfound freedom.
Translated from the Polish by William R. Brand and Katarzyna Mroczkowska-Brand. [via]More editions of Another Day of Life:
- Another Day of Life: ISBN 0375726292 (0-375-72629-2)
Softcover, Vintage Books - Another Day of Life: ISBN 0140106588 (0-14-010658-8)
Softcover, Penguin Group USA - Another Day of Life: ISBN 014118678X (0-14-118678-X)
Softcover, Penguin Group (Canada) - Another Day of Life: ISBN 0330301047 (0-330-30104-7)
Softcover, Pan Macmillan - Another Day of Life: ISBN 0151075638 (0-15-107563-8)
Hardcover, Harcourt - Another Day of Life: ISBN 0330298445 (0-330-29844-5)
Softcover, Pan Macmillan
- Another Day of Life: ISBN 0375726292 (0-375-72629-2)
The Cobra's Heartby Ryszard KapuscinskiISBN 0141025557 (0-14-102555-7)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited
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The Emperorby Ryszard KapuscinskiISBN 0330283731 (0-330-28373-1)
Softcover, Pan Macmillan
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› Find signed collectible books: 'The Emperor'Book summary:Haile Selassie, His Most Puissant Majesty and Distinguished Highness the Emperor of Ethiopia, enjoyed a 44-year reign until his own army gave him the boot in 1974. In the days following the coup, the Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski traveled to Ethiopia and sought out members of the imperial court for interviews.
His composite portrait of Selassie's crumbling imperium is an astonishing, wildly funny creation, beginning with the very first interview. "It was a small dog," recalls an anonymous functionary, "a Japanese breed. His name was Lulu. He was allowed to sleep in the Emperor's great bed. During various ceremonies, he would run away from the Emperor's lap and pee on dignitaries' shoes. The august gentlemen were not allowed to flinch or make the slightest gesture when they felt their feet getting wet. I had to walk among the dignitaries and wipe the urine from their shoes with a satin cloth. This was my job for ten years." (Well, it's a living.)
Elsewhere, the interviewees venture into tragic or grotesque or downright unbelievable terrain. Kapuscinski has shaped their testimonies into an eloquent whole, and while he never alludes to the totalitarian regime that ruled his native Poland during the same period, the analogy is impossible to ignore. [via]
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The Emperor : Downfall of an Autocratby Ryszard Kapuscinski , Neal AschersonISBN 0141188030 (0-14-118803-0)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited
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Imperiumby Ryszard Kapuscinski , Klara GlowczewskaISBN 0394280822 (0-394-28082-2)
Softcover, Knopf Canada
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- Imperium: ISBN 0140142355 (0-14-014235-5)
Hardcover, Penguin Books, Limited - Imperium: ISBN 0140140697 (0-14-014069-7)
Softcover, Granta Books - Imperium: ISBN 0394280342 (0-394-28034-2)
Hardcover, Knopf Canada - Imperium: ISBN 039428125X (0-394-28125-X)
Hardcover, Random House of Canada, Limited - Imperium: ISBN 0517174847 (0-517-17484-7)
Hardcover, Random House Value Publishing - Imperium: ISBN 0394280822 (0-394-28082-2)
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- Imperium: ISBN 0140142355 (0-14-014235-5)
Kiss the Hand You Cannot Bite: The Rise and Fall of the Ceausescusby Edward Behr, Ryszard KapuscinskiISBN 0679401288 (0-679-40128-8)
Hardcover, Random House Publishing Group
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The Shadow of the Sunby Ryszard KapuscinskiISBN 0141035323 (0-14-103532-3)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited
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The Shadow of the Sun : My African Lifeby Ryszard Kapuscinski , Klara GlowczewskaISBN 0140292624 (0-14-029262-4)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited
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Shah of Shahsby Ryszard Kapuscinski , Christopher de BellaigueISBN 0141188049 (0-14-118804-9)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited
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› Find signed collectible books: 'Shah of Shahs'Book summary:In Shah of Shahs Kapuscinski brings a mythographer's perspective and a novelist's virtuosity to bear on the overthrow of the last Shah of Iran, one of the most infamous of the United States' client-dictators, who resolved to transform his country into "a second America in a generation," only to be toppled virtually overnight. From his vantage point at the break-up of the old regime, Kapuscinski gives us a compelling history of conspiracy, repression, fanatacism, and revolution.
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The Soccer Warby Ryszard KapuscinskiISBN 0140140190 (0-14-014019-0)
Softcover, Penguin Books, Limited
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