Another Day of Life
$31.16
- Paperback
176 pages
- Release Date
22 July 2001
Summary
This is a very personal book, about being alone and lost. In 1975 Kapuscinski’s employers sent him to Angola to cover the civil war that had broken out after independence. For months he watched as Luanda and then the rest of the country collapsed into a civil war that was in the author’s words ‘sloppy, dogged and cruel’. In his account, Kapuscinski demonstrates an extraordinary capacity to describe and to explain the individual meaning of grand political abstractions.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141186788 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 014118678X |
| Author: | Ryszard Kapuscinski, William Brand |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 176 |
| Release Date: | 22 July 2001 |
| Weight: | 138g |
| Dimensions: | 198mm x 129mm x 10mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
What They're Saying
Critics Review
” Completely compelling…. Full of subtle truths and oblique insights.” – “The New York Times Book Review” ” Everything in Another Day of Life is alive– we see the beginning of the process by which a reporter’s truth can, out of turmoil and fear, sometimes become an artist’s.” – “The Village Voice” ” In this unblinking picture of survival amid directionless chaos lies perhaps the elusive primitive clarification of what civil was is really like in the third world.” – “San Francisco Chronicle”“Completely compelling…. Full of subtle truths and oblique insights.” –“The New York Times Book Review” “Everything in Another Day of Life is alive–we see the beginning of the process by which a reporter’s truth can, out of turmoil and fear, sometimes become an artist’s.” –“The Village Voice” “In this unblinking picture of survival amid directionless chaos lies perhaps the elusive primitive clarification of what civil was is really like in the third world.” –“San Francisco Chronicle”
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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