Born in Pinsk, now in Belarus, in 1932, Kapuscinski was the
pre-eminent writer among Polish reporters. Kapuscinski's best-known
book is just such a reportage-novel of the decline of Haile
Selassie's anachronistic regime in Ethiopia - The Emperor, which
has been translated into many languages. Shah of Shahs, about the
last Shah of Iran, and Imperium, about the last days of the Soviet
Union, have enjoyed similar success. He died in January 2007.
Neal Ascherson was born in Edinburgh in 1932, and has worked as a
journalist all his life - mostly as a foreign correspondent in
east-central Europe and in Africa. For some 12 years he was a
columnist on The Observer and The Independent on Sunday. He wrote
two books about Poland, and his recent works include Black Sea
(1995) and Stone Voices (2002). Neal Ascherson lives in London and
is married to the journalist and broadcaster Isabel Hilton.
""[The Emperor]" transcends reportage, becoming a nightmare of
power... An unforgettable, fiercely comic, and finally
compassionate book."
--Salman Rushdie
"Kapuscinski transcends the limitations of journalism and writes
with the narrative power of a Conrad or Kipling or Orwell."
--Blake Morrison
"A Stunning exhibit; the interviewed subjects. . .enunciate their
memories of the days of Haile Selassie with a magical elegance
that. . .achieves poetry and aphorism."
--John Updike, "The New Yorker"
" "[The Emperor]" transcends reportage, becoming a nightmare of
power... An unforgettable, fiercely comic, and finally
compassionate book."
-- Salman Rushdie
" Kapuscinski transcends the limitations of journalism and writes
with the narrative power of a Conrad or Kipling or Orwell."
-- Blake Morrison
" A Stunning exhibit; the interviewed subjects. . .enunciate their
memories of the days of Haile Selassie with a magical elegance
that. . .achieves poetry and aphorism."
-- John Updike, "The New Yorker"
""ÝThe Emperor¨" transcends reportage, becoming a nightmare of
power... An unforgettable, fiercely comic, and finally
compassionate book."
--Salman Rushdie
"Kapuscinski transcends the limitations of journalism and writes
with the narrative power of a Conrad or Kipling or Orwell."
--Blake Morrison
"A Stunning exhibit; the interviewed subjects. . .enunciate their
memories of the days of Haile Selassie with a magical elegance
that. . .achieves poetry and aphorism."
--John Updike, "The New Yorker"
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