{"product_id":"imperium","title":"Imperium","description":"The Polish journalist whose \u003ci\u003eThe Soccer War\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Emperor\u003c\/i\u003e are counted as classics of contemporary reportage now bears witness in \u003ci\u003eImperium\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eImperium\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003egulag\u003c\/i\u003e of Kolyma, from a miners' strike in the arctic circle to a panic-stricken bus ride through the war-torn Caucasus. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48515821371641,"sku":"9780679747802","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/1811\/7625\/files\/imageloader_3a0d8965-d426-4df2-ada5-8ca4e037f3f1.jpg?v=1781209256","url":"https:\/\/hookeandplotte.com\/products\/imperium","provider":"Hooke and Plotte Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}