Nobody Leaves
Impressions of Poland
$23.57
- Paperback
128 pages
- Release Date
4 March 2019
Summary
Regarded as a central part of Kapuscinski’s work, these vivid portraits of life in the depths of Poland embody the young writer’s mastery of literary reportage.
When the great Ryszard Kapuscinski was a young journalist in the early 1960s, he was sent to the farthest reaches of his native Poland between foreign assignments. The resulting pieces brought together in this new collection, nearly all of which are translated into English for the first time, reveal a place just as strange as …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780718192006 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0718192001 |
| Author: | Ryszard Kapuscinski, William Brand |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Release Date: | 4 March 2019 |
| Weight: | 102g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 130mm x 7mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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A peculiar genius with no modern equivalent, except possibly Kafka – Jonathan MillerKapuscinski trascends the limitations of journalism and writes with the narrative power of a Conrad or Kipling or Orwell – Blake Morrison
About The Author
Ryszard Kapuscinski
Ryszard Kapuscinski was born in Poland in 1932. As a foreign correspondent for PAP, the Polish news agency, until 1981 he was an eyewitness to revolutions and civil wars in Africa, Asia and Latin America. His books include The Shadow of the Sun, The Emperor, Shah of Shahs, Another Day of Life and Travels with Herodotus. He won dozens of major literary prizes all over the world, and was made ‘journalist of the century’ in Poland. He died in January 2007.
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