{"product_id":"imperium-isbn-9780679747802","title":"Imperium","description":"The Polish journalist whose \u003ci\u003eThe Soccer War\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Emperor\u003c\/i\u003e are counted as classics of contemporary reportage now bears witness in \u003ci\u003eImperium\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eImperium\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003egulag\u003c\/i\u003e of Kolyma, from a miners' strike in the arctic circle to a panic-stricken bus ride through the war-torn Caucasus.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOut 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.\u003cb\u003eFIRST ENCOUNTERS (1939–1967)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePinsk\u003cbr\u003eThe Trans-Siberian\u003cbr\u003eThe South\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFROM A BIRD'S-EYE VIEW (1989–1991)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Third Rome\u003cbr\u003eThe Temple and the Palace\u003cbr\u003eWe Look, We Cry\u003cbr\u003eThe Man on the Asphalt Mountain\u003cbr\u003eFleeing from Oneself\u003cbr\u003eVorkuta—to Freeze in Fire\u003cbr\u003eTomorrow, the Revolt of the Bashkirs\u003cbr\u003eRussian Mystery Play\u003cbr\u003eJumping over Puddles\u003cbr\u003eKolyma, Fog and More Fog\u003cbr\u003eThe Kremlin: The Magic Mountain\u003cbr\u003eThe Trap\u003cbr\u003eCentral Asia—the Destruction of the Sea\u003cbr\u003ePomona of the Little Town of Drohobych\u003cbr\u003eReturn to My Hometown\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE SEQUEL CONTINUES (1992–1993)\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThe Sequel Continues\"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.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\"\u003cbr\u003e—\u003ci\u003eWall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"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.\"\u003cbr\u003e—Professor Thomas R. Beyer, Jr., Middlebury College, \u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003eRyszard Kapuscinski was born in eastern Poland in 1932. His earlier books, which include \u003ci\u003eShah of Shahs\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Emperor\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eThe Soccer War\u003c\/i\u003e, have been translated into nineteen languages. He died in January of 2007.","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303522160869,"sku":"NP9780679747802","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780679747802.jpg?v=1767729893","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/imperium-isbn-9780679747802","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}