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THE SHADOW OF THE SUN.
THE SHADOW OF THE SUN by Ryszard Kapuscinski. Translated from the Polish by Klara Glowczewska. Knopf. $25.
A mystery has always hovered over the work of Ryszard Kapuscinski, and around this mystery a kind of cult has formed. AS the Polish Press Agency's first and only resident correspondent in sub-Saharan Africa, Kapuscinski was single-handedly responsible for covering the continent's wars, coups, famines--the violent drama of post-colonial Africa in the years after he first arrived in 1957. The improbability of his career as an agency reporter from an Iron Curtain country, lacking the money or influence of his Western counterparts and writing in a language hardly anyone outside Poland speaks, forced him to be more resourceful than other reporters, and ...See the full content of this document
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