Review: The Emperor
User Review - Matthew - GoodreadsFor years I had heard what a wonderful writer Kapuscinski was but to me this book was a let down. It read more like a tell-all scandal rag rather than the superior journalistic account it was touted ... Read full review
Review: The Emperor (Penguin Modern Classics)
User Review - Filipa - GoodreadsThe decadence of an Empire is here narrated to outsiders - on the surprised, ironic and astonishing words of those that worked to maintain it until the very end. A tale of autocracy and myth, weaved ... Read full review
Review: The Emperor
User Review - AmmarMajali - GoodreadsThis short nonfiction book tells the fall of Haile Selaise the last emperor of Ethiopia. Written in forms of eyewitnesses with initials as they were in hiding and the Polish journalist Kapuscinski ... Read full review
Review: The Emperor
User Review - Annemieke Windt - GoodreadsGranted I read the book The Emperor by Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuscinski in Dutch, but because it's an international story I figured I could include it in my blog. The Emperor is a book that left ... Read full review
Review: The Emperor
User Review - GoodreadsWhile reading Cutting for Stone I found myself wanting more information about Haile Selassie, his dog and his hold on Ethiopia. The author listed this book as one of his many references. There was ...
Review: The Emperor
User Review - Kkopp - GoodreadsI picked up this volume along with Shah of Shahs on the share shelf in the lounge of a hotel I worked at in China in the mid-1980s. I was entranced by Kapuściński's seemingly aloof but actually ... Read full review
Review: The Emperor
User Review - Daniel Montero - GoodreadsI wasn't planning on reading tonight, but then picked this up and couldn't put it down. Told in interviews with those in the palace of Haile Selassie,the emperor of Ethiopia, this is a terrifying view ... Read full review
Review: The Emperor
User Review - M. Milner - GoodreadsA great read about the court of Hallie Selassie, Ryszard Kapuścińskii's The Emperor is a deep look inside the Emperor's palace and at the void inside a revolution. Told primarily through the ministers ... Read full review
Review: The Emperor
User Review - Nicolas - Goodreadsp. 51 Next, he abolished by decree a method that we call lebasha, for the discovery of thieves. Medicine men would give a secret herb to small boys, who dizzy, stupefied, and directed by supernatural ... Read full review
Review: The Emperor
User Review - Adam - GoodreadsThe Emperor is a bizarre and at time grotesquely comic portrait of the last Emperor of Ethiopia Haile Selassie. It is also a detail and evocative exploration of tyranny. Kapuscinki in a much more ... Read full review
