Another Day of Life
Kapuscinski, Ryszard
Brand, William R. (TRN)
Mroczkowska-Brand, Katarzyna (TRN)
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In 1975, Angola was tumbling into pandemonium; everyone who could was packing crates, desperate to abandon the beleaguered colony. With his trademark bravura, Ryszard Kapuscinski went the other way, begging his was from Lisbon and comfort to Luandaonce fa
BOOK SYNOPSIS
In 1975, Angola was tumbling into pandemonium; everyone who could was packing crates, desperate to abandon the beleaguered colony. With his trademark bravura, Ryszard Kapuscinski went the other way, begging his was from Lisbon and comfort to Luandaonce famed as Africa's Rio de Janeiroand chaos.
Angola, a slave colony later given over to mining and plantations, was a promised land for generations of poor Portuguese. It had belonged to Portugal since before there were English-speakers in North America. After the collapse of the fascist dictatorship in Portugal in 1974, Angola was brusquely cut loose, spurring the catastrophe of a still-ongoing civil war. Kapuscinski plunged right into the middle of the drama, driving past thousands of haphazardly placed check-points, where using the wrong shibboleth was a matter of life and death; recording his imporessions of the young soldiersfrom Cuba, Angola, South Africa, Portugalfighting a nebulous war with global repercussions; and examining the peculiar brutality of a country surprised and divided by its newfound freedom.
Translated from the Polish by William R. Brand and Katarzyna Mroczkowska-Brand.
BOOK REVIEWS
"Completely compelling.... Full of subtle truths and oblique insights." The New York Times Book Review
"Everything in Another Day of Life is alivewe 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
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0375726292
ISBN(13-digit): 9780375726293
Copyright: 2001
Dewey Decimal: 967.3/03
Library of Congress: 00043833
Book Publisher: Random House Inc
Language: ENG
No. of Pages: 144
Paper Weight (lb): 0.4
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