{"product_id":"b00dptl2ic","title":"Imperium (Vintage International)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Polish journalist whose  The Soccer War  and  The Emperor  are counted as classics of contemporary reportage now bears witness in  Imperium  to the disintegration of the Soviet Union. This magisterial book combines childhood memory with unblinking journalism, a radar for the truth with a keen appreciation of the absurd.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eImperium  begins with Ryszard Kapuscinski's account of the Soviet occupation of his town in eastern Poland in 1939. It culminates fifty years later, with a forty-thousand-mile journey that takes him from the haunted corridors of the Kremlin to the abandoned  gulag  of Kolyma, from a miners' strike in the arctic circle to a panic-stricken bus ride through the war-torn Caucasus.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOut of passivity and paranoia, ethnic hatred and religious fanaticism that have riven two generations of Eastern Europeans, Kapuscinski has composed a symphony for a collapsing empire—a work that translates history into the hopes and sufferings of the human beings condemned to live it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ANT","offers":[{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":52819527696600,"sku":"YSL34323","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0835\/3356\/2072\/files\/51ItYgA2FbL._SY1500.jpg?v=1793090651","url":"https:\/\/www.bookmebay.com\/products\/b00dptl2ic","provider":"BookMebay","version":"1.0","type":"link"}