Another Day of Life (Vintage International) (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of Another Day of Life (Vintage International) Sunday, August 2 2009.

• Ryszard Kapuscinski is widely regarded as one of the twentieth century's preeminent journalists, demonstrating an almost mystical ability to discover the odd or overlooked and incorporating these sometimes surreal details into narratives that go beyond mere reportage and enter the realm of literature. Another Day of Life is Kapuscinski's dramatic account of the three months he spent in Angola at the beginning of its decades' long civil war. The capital, Luanda, is occupied only by those not fortunate enough to flee. When even the dogs abandoned by the Europeans leave, Kapuscinski decides to go to the front, where the wrong greeting could cost your life and where young soldiers-from Cuba, Russia, South Africa, Portugal-are fighting a war with global repercussions. With harrowing detail, Kapuscinski shows us the peculiar brutality of a country divided by its newfound freedom. Translated from the Polish by William R. Brand and Katarzyna Mroczkowska-Brand.

Shelfari edited the contributors of Another Day of Life (Vintage International) Thursday, July 23 2009.

• Added a contributor: Ryszard Kapuscinski: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Another Day of Life (Vintage International) Thursday, July 16 2009.

• For three months I lived in Luanda, in the Hotel Tivoli.