The Emperor
Downfall of an Autocrat
A "sensitive, powerful ... history" (The New York Review of Books) of a man living amidst nearly unimaginable pomp and luxury while his people teetered netween hunger and starvation.
Haile Selassie, King of Kings, Elect of God, Lion of Judah, His Most Puissant Majesty and Distinguished Highness the Emperor of Ethiopia, reigned from 1930 until he was overthrown by the army in 1974. While the fighting still raged, Ryszard Kapuscinski, Poland's leading foreign correspondent, traveled to Ethiopia to seek out and interview Selassie's servants and closest associates on how the Emperor had ruled and why he fell. This is Kapuscinski's rendition of their accounts—humorous, frightening, sad, groteque.
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March 13, 1989Ryszard Kapuscinski, Poland’s most celebrated foreign correspondent, was born in 1932 in Pinsk (in what is now Belarus) and spent four decades reporting on Asia, Latin America, and Africa. He is also the author of Imperium, Another Day of Life, and The Soccer War. His books have been translated into 28 languages. Kapuscinski died in 2007.
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The Shadow of the Sun
Ryszard Kapuscinski
Another Day of Life
Ryszard Kapuscinski
Imperium
Ryszard Kapuscinski
Shah of Shahs
Ryszard Kapuscinski
The Emperor
Ryszard Kapuscinski
Buddenbrooks
Thomas Mann
The Thinking Heart
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Voices of the Fallen Heroes
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Of Human Bondage
W. Somerset Maugham
Giovanni's Room (Deluxe Edition)
James Baldwin
Go Tell It on the Mountain (Deluxe Edition)
James Baldwin
If Beale Street Could Talk (Deluxe Edition)
James Baldwin
Tomás Nevinson
Javier Marías
Knight's Gambit
William Faulkner
Answered Prayers
Truman Capote
The Rainbow
Yasunari Kawabata
The Passenger
Cormac McCarthy
Stella Maris
Cormac McCarthy
The Singularities
John Banville
Mosquitoes
William Faulkner
Homage to Catalonia
George Orwell
A Most Extraordinary Ride
Marc Garneau
The Good Allies
Tim Cook
Great-Uncle Harry
Michael Palin
The Traitor's Daughter
Roxana Spicer
Paris '44
Patrick Bishop
The War We Won Apart
Nahlah Ayed
The Peace
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Outspoken
Sima Samar with Sally Armstrong
By the Ghost Light
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Lifesavers and Body Snatchers
Tim Cook
Prisoners of the Castle
Ben Macintyre
Mussolini's Daughter
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Operation Jubilee
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The Devil's Trick
John Boyko
In Praise of Blood
Judi Rever
The Girl Who Smiled Beads
Clemantine Wamariya
The Wife's Tale
Aida Edemariam
City of Thorns
Ben Rawlence
Gandhi Before India
Ramachandra Guha
The Idealist
Nina Munk
The Last Train to Zona Verde
Paul Theroux
The Politics of Bones
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Timbuktu
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The Masque of Africa
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Shake Hands with the Devil
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Sahara
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The Shadow of the Sun
Ryszard Kapuscinski
In the Shadow of a Saint
Ken Wiwa