Abordei este livro com elevadas expectativas, o que é sempre um erro. A culpa foi da Granta (nr. 1) onde li pela primeira vez algo deste autor e adorei. É difícil escrever sobre este livro. Ao chegar ao fim, a sensação é a de que faltam ali muitos capítulos, é tudo muito despachado para a frente ...
I'm not born yesterday. I know that Kapuscinski played a deeper role in the MPLA than he would've liked to admit, and that much of his writing works as state propaganda. If you take his point of view with a grain of salt, you still have a memorable, fascinating look at the beginnings of the Ango...
I was about 16 when Ryszard Kapuscinski was covering this Cold War era conflict in Angola. Reading this provided me with a more detailed background to my limited knowledge that was based on BBC news reports of the time which mostly concentrated on the role of British mercenaries and the threat of...
Gỗ mun là một cuốn sách về châu Phi. Có lẽ chính xác hơn phải nói Gỗ mun là một cuốn sách châu Phi, bởi lẽ nó không phải là dạng sách du ký của một du khách đến nhìn, ngắm, bình luận đôi điều, rồi trèo lên xe đi. Nó là một cuốn sách của một con người ở bên trong châu Phi, sống cùng châu Phi, chứn...
What can I say? I killed two birds with one stone – I have some dear Iranian friends and this is my beloved author's insight into the country. I loved the read - the first thing I'll say is that I can perfectly recommend it. Even if your impressions are different from mine, it would be difficult ...
p.146-148"Upon the desk, I have declared a silent war. It is, after all, a specific piece of furniture with particular properties. While many whole categories of furniture may be man's serviceable instruments, his slaves, in the case of the desk a contrary relationship obtains: man is its instr...
(The review in the Economist which recommended this book to me is here, and their obituary of Kapuściński is also available, here.)I’ve recently been categorizing my reading material into “fast” and “slow”, but after reading Kapuściński’s Travels with Herodotus I think I need to rethink the “slow...