Imperium - Softcover

Kapuscinksi, Ryszard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1862071055 ISBN 13: 9781862071056

Publisher: Granta Books, 1998

Synopsis

During the year the Berlin Wall came down, as the empire convulsed and died, Kapuscinski talked to hundreds of ordinary people about their extraordinary lives and the terror from which they were emerging. Imperium is a race to capture people's memories, and their fears for the future, before the wonderful, terrible events of 1989 receded into the past.

About this title

About the Authors

Ryszard Kapuscinski was born in 1932 in Pinsk in eastern Poland and educated in Warsaw. His first book, The Polish Bush, which reported from the Polish 'frontier', appeared in 1962 and was an immediate best-seller. He travelled widely throughout the Third World as a foreign correspondent, storing up, as he once said in an interview, the experiences for the books that would come later. The first of these books, published in 1968, was based on a journey through Islamic Russia. This was followed by books on Africa, Latin America and South Africa. His first book to be translated into English was The Emperor, based on the last days of Haile Selassie. His other books in English include Another Day of Life, about the war in Angola, and Shah of Shahs, about the revolution in Iran. He is also the author of the highly acclaimed Imperium, the story of his travels across the dying empire of the Soviet Union in 1989, which is also published by Granta Books. Ryszard Kapuscinski died in Warsaw in January 2007 at the age of seventy-four.

Klara Glowczewska holds a B.A. degree in English, Magna Cum Laude, from Yale College. Born in Warsaw, Poland, and raised in Raleigh, North Carolina, Cairo, Egypt, and New Canaan, Connecticut, Glowczewka speaks three languages, including French and Polish. She lives in New York City.

Edition details

• Publisher: Granta Books
• Publication date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1862071055
• ISBN 13: 9781862071056
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 352