'A masterpiece ... a moving image of post-war Poland, and the first breathing of one of the essential voices of the twentieth century... the master of literary reportage' The Times Literary Supplement When the great traveller-reporter Ryszard Kapuscinski was a young journalist in the early 1960s, he was sent to write about the farthest reaches of his native Poland. The resulting essays brought together here reveal a place as strange as any of the distant lands he visited on foreign assignments: caught between ties to the past and dreams of escape, a country on the edge of modernity. 'Kapuscinski trascends the limitations of journalism and writes with the narrative power of a Conrad or Kipling or Orwell' Blake Morrison
ISBN: | 9780718192006 |
Publication date: | 31st January 2019 |
Author: | Ryszard Kapuscinski |
Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
Format: | Paperback |
Pagination: | 128 pages |
Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
Genres: |
Biography: general Media, entertainment, information and communication industries European history Photojournalism and documentary photography |