Imperium / Ryszard Kapuściński ; translated from the Polish by Klara Glowczewska.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kapuściński, Ryszard.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Kapuściński, Ryszard.

Travel.

Soviet Union.

Kapuściński, Ryszard--Travel--Soviet Union.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

x, 331 pages ; 20 cm

Edition:

First Vintage International edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Vintage International, 1995.

Summary:

By "the conjuror extraordinary of modern portage" (John le Carre)--a personal, brilliantly detailed exploration of the almost unfathomably complex Soviet empire. "When a writer of Mr. Kapuscinski's genius writes of the snows and the steppes of Siberia, of the doomed Aral Sea and Kiev . . . no pictures are necessary".--The Wall Street Journal. First time in paperback.

Contents:

First encounters (1939-1967). Pińsk, '39 ; The Trans-Siberian, '58 ; The South, '67

From a bird's-eye view (1989-1991). The third Rome ; The temple and the palace ; We look, we cry ; The man on the asphalt mountain ; Fleeing from oneself ; Vorkuta-to freeze in fire ; Tomorrow, the Revolt of the Bashkirs ; Russian mystery play ; Jumping over puddles ; Kolyma, fog and more fog ; The Kremlin: the magic mountain ; The trap ; Central Asia-the destruction of the sea ; Pomona of the little town of Drohobych ; Return to my hometown

The sequel continues (1992-1993).

ISBN:

067974780X

9780679747802

OCLC:

33148331