Imperium - Ryszard Kapuściński Binding: Hardback

Binding: Hardback

commitment

is so packed with books that barely five people can fit inside

But soon he finds that such mask is more than a disguise: it is an alternate self - a self that is capable of anything

loss and desire - to a time when an impetuous young woman called Midori marches into his life and he has to choose between the future and the past

Imperium - Ryszard Kapuściński Binding: HardbackImperium is the story of an empire: the constellation of states that was submerged under a single identity for most of the twentieth century the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. From the arrival of Soviet troops into his hometown in Poland in 1939, to just before the Berlin Wall came down, as the USSR convulsed and died, Kapuscinski travelled thousands of miles and talked to hundreds of ordinary Soviet people about their extraordinary lives and