false<![CDATA[Another Day of Life (Penguin Modern Classics)]]>http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171486689m/102738.jpg10273812In 1975, Angola was tumbling into pandemonium; everyone who could was packing crates, desperate to abandon the beleaguered colony. With his trademark bravura, Ryszard Kapuscinski went the other way, begging his was from Lisbon and comfort to Luanda—once famed as Africa's Rio de Janeiro—and chaos.<br><br>Angola, a slave colony later given over to mining and plantations, was a promised land for generations of poor Portuguese. It had belonged to Portugal since before there were English-speakers in North America. After the collapse of the fascist dictatorship in Portugal in 1974, Angola was brusquely cut loose, spurring the catastrophe of a still-ongoing civil war. Kapuscinski plunged right into the middle of the drama, driving past thousands of haphazardly placed check-points, where using the wrong shibboleth was a matter of life and death; recording his imporessions of the young soldiers—from Cuba, Angola, South Africa, Portugal—fighting a nebulous war with global repercussions; and examining the peculiar brutality of a country surprised and divided by its newfound freedom.<br><br>Translated from the Polish by William R. Brand and Katarzyna Mroczkowska-Brand.874605book1976Another Day of Life (Penguin Modern Classics)total:172|5:67|4:79|3:22|2:4|1:0|1727252622151falsefalseThu Mar 08 11:04:11 -0800 2007Sat Mar 10 13:09:27 -0800 2007
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Ryszard Kapuściński's journey to Angola in middle of 1970s. Til 1975 Angola was Portuguese colony. In 1975 after 14 years of guerilla fights Angola became independent country. Kapuściński showed the evacuation of the Portuguse who were living and working in Angola. Country was tor...more...]]>
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Another Day of Life describes the chaotic events he witnessed in Angola in 1975. Despite the impossibility of any sort of front that could be descr...more...]]>
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