King Leopold's Ghost

All the tension and drama that one would expect in a good novel – Robert Harris A history like none other … an amazing book – Tariq Ali * Financial Times * Astonishing … Adam Hochschild writes a compelling narrative in lucid prose, one that chronicles a conveniently forgotten atrocity that stains the pages of world history. * The Guardian * With this book, Hochschild, like other historians before him, ensures that King Leopold has not gotten away with his efforts to erase the memory of his brutal acts. * The New York Times *

Adam Hochschild teaches writing at the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California at Berkeley. He lives in San Francisco with his wife. He is the author of Spain in Our Hearts: Americans in the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939 and King Leopold’s Ghost: a Story of Greed, Terror and Heroism in Colonial Africa, which won the Duff Cooper Prize in the UK and the Lionel Gelber Prize in Canada and was a finalist for the 1998 National Book Critics Circle Award in the United States.