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Imperium by Kapuscinski, Ryszard
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- Binding
- Paperback
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- Product Group
- Book
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- ISBN
- 067974780X
- Book Title
- Imperium
- Item Length
- 8in
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Publication Year
- 1995
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.7in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, Travel, History
- Topic
- Europe / Eastern, Former Soviet Republics, Personal Memoirs, Military / Wars & Conflicts (Other), Essays & Travelogues
- Item Width
- 5.2in
- Item Weight
- 10 oz
- Number of Pages
- 352 Pages
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The Polish journalist whose The Soccer War and The Emperor are counted as classics of contemporary reportage now bears witness in Imperium 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 abandoned gulag 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 empire--a work that translates history into the hopes and sufferings of the human beings condemned to live it.
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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
067974780x
ISBN-13
9780679747802
eBay Product ID (ePID)
3038436259
Product Key Features
Book Title
Imperium
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Europe / Eastern, Former Soviet Republics, Personal Memoirs, Military / Wars & Conflicts (Other), Essays & Travelogues
Publication Year
1995
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, Travel, History
Number of Pages
352 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8in
Item Height
0.7in
Item Width
5.2in
Item Weight
10 oz
Additional Product Features
Reviews
"Kapuscinski is a transcendental journalist. . . . He begins with appearances, for which he has uncommon gifts of poetry, irony and paradox, and clambers down them into essences. . . .He is writing about the whale from inside its belly." - Los Angeles Times "Kapuscinski is an enchanting guide, combining boundless stamina, felicitous writing, childish curiosity and the literate authority of a true intellectual. . . . There are treasures in this book. . . .It is a triumphant combination of bleak history and black comedy." - The New York Times Book Review "When our children's children want to study the cruelties of the late twentieth century . . . when they wonder why revolution after revolution betrayed its promises hrough greed, fear and confusion, they should read Ryszard Kapuscinski." - Wall Street Journal "A compelling and convincing narrative that examines the extensive damage done to entire nations, the human psyche and the physical environment....This is a devastating picture of Russia [that] penetrates deeply into the depressing truths of 70 years of Soviet rule, the borders, the fear, the inhumanity.... His portrait of the 'Imperium' is tragic, but ever so true." -Professor Thomas R. Beyer, Jr., Middlebury College, The Boston Globe
Table of Content
FIRST ENCOUNTERS (1939-1967) Pinsk The Trans-Siberian The South FROM A BIRD'S-EYE VIEW (1989-1991) The Third Rome The Temple and the Palace We Look, We Cry The Man on the Asphalt Mountain Fleeing from Oneself Vorkuta--to Freeze in Fire Tomorrow, the Revolt of the Bashkirs Russian Mystery Play Jumping over Puddles Kolyma, Fog and More Fog The Kremlin: The Magic Mountain The Trap Central Asia--the Destruction of the Sea Pomona of the Little Town of Drohobych Return to My Hometown THE SEQUEL CONTINUES (1992-1993) The Sequel Continues
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Dewey Decimal
914.704854
Series
Vintage International Ser.
Dewey Edition
22
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