Another Day of Life

Description

In Luanda, the capital of Angola, an apocalyptic atmosphere prevails as the Portuguese residents hurriedly desert the city. Determined to cover events as four hundred years of colonial rule come to an end, Ryszard Kapuscinski hitched a lift on one of the last Portuguese military aircraft flying to Angola. He discovered the terrifying spectacle of a war within the war for national independence- a murderous, messy struggle in which many of the participants can scarcely tell one another apart. Shot through with wit and irony, Kapuscinski's superb account vividly conveys the heat, confusion, fear and unrelenting tension of a country tragically divided by its new freedom. It is one of the truly great pieces of modern reportage.

Ryszard Kapuscinski was a renowned journalist and writer whose previous books include The Emperor: Downfall of an Autocrat (which Salman Rushdie called 'an unforgettable, fiercely comic, and finally compassionate book'), The Shadow of the Sun, Shah of Shahs, Imperium and The Soccer War. Allen Lane also publish his last book Travels With Herodotus. He died in January 2007.

?Despite Kapuscinski's insistence that 'the image of war is not communicable.' He has done just that and done it very well. "Newsweek" "A completely compelling bookEfull of subtle truths and oblique insights."-"The New York Times Book Review " Completely compelling.... Full of subtle truths and oblique insights." -- "The New York Times Book Review" " Everything in Another Day of Life is alive-- we see the beginning of the process by which a reporter's truth can, out of turmoil and fear, sometimes become an artist's." -- "The Village Voice" " In this unblinking picture of survival amid directionless chaos lies perhaps the elusive primitive clarification of what civil was is really like in the third world." -- "San Francisco Chronicle" "Completely compelling.... Full of subtle truths and oblique insights." --"The New York Times Book Review" "Everything in Another Day of Life is alive--we see the beginning of the process by which a reporter's truth can, out of turmoil and fear, sometimes become an artist's." --"The Village Voice" "In this unblinking picture of survival amid directionless chaos lies perhaps the elusive primitive clarification of what civil was is really like in the third world." --"San Francisco Chronicle"