The Shadow of the Sun

Ryszard Kapuscinski (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

336 Seiten

2007
Penguin Books Ltd (Verlag)
978-0-14-103532-1 (ISBN)

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Tells about the people of Africa throughout author's career. In a study that avoids the official routes, palaces and big politics, this book sets out to create an account of post-colonial Africa seen at once as a whole and as a location that wholly defies generalised explanations.

'Only with the greatest of simplifications, for the sake of convenience, can we say Africa. In reality, except as a geographical term, Africa doesn't exist'. Ryszard Kapuscinski has been writing about the people of Africa throughout his career. In astudy that avoids the official routes, palaces and big politics, he sets out to create an account of post-colonial Africa seen at once as a whole and as a location that wholly defies generalised explanations. It is both a sustained meditation on themosaic of peoples and practises we call 'Africa', and an impassioned attempt to come to terms with humanity itself as it struggles to escape from foreign domination, from the intoxications of freedom, from war and from politics as theft.

Ryszard Kapuscinski was a legendary journalist and writer whose previous books include ANOTHER DAY OF LIFE, THE EMPEROR: DOWNFALL OF AN AUTOCRAT (which Salman Rushdie called 'an unforgettable, fiercely comic, and finally compassionate book'), SHAH OF SHAHS, IMPERIUM and THE SOCCER WAR.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	6.9.2007
Reihe/Serie	Penguin Celebrations
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	130 x 198 mm
Gewicht	254 g
Themenwelt	Reisen ► Reiseberichte ► Afrika
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	0-14-103532-3 / 0141035323
ISBN-13	978-0-14-103532-1 / 9780141035321
Zustand	Neuware