Imperium - (Vintage International) by Ryszard Kapuscinski (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>By "the conjuror extraordinary of modern portage" (John le Carre)--a personal, brilliantly detailed exploration of the almost unfathomably complex Soviet empire. "When a writer of Mr. Kapuscinski's genius writes of the snows and the steppes of Siberia, of the doomed Aral Sea and Kiev . . . no pictures are necessary".--The Wall Street Journal. First time in paperback.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>The Polish journalist whose <i>The Soccer War</i> and <i>The Emperor</i> are counted as classics of contemporary reportage now bears witness in <i>Imperium</i> 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. <p/><i>Imperium</i> 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 <i>gulag</i> of Kolyma, from a miners' strike in the arctic circle to a panic-stricken bus ride through the war-torn Caucasus. <p/>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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"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."<br>--<i>Los Angeles Times</i> <p/>"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."<br>--<i>The New York Times Book Review</i> <p/>"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."<br>--<i>Wall Street Journal</i> <p/>"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."<br>--Professor Thomas R. Beyer, Jr., Middlebury College, <i>The Boston Globe</i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Ryszard Kapuscinski was born in eastern Poland in 1932. His earlier books, which include <i>Shah of Shahs</i>, <i>The Emperor</i>, and <i>The Soccer War</i>, have been translated into nineteen languages. He died in January of 2007.
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