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Kapuscinski alleges that these are transcripts of former members of Haile Selassie's court, but I wonder why they all seem to speak in the same manner and I also wonder why they all seem to utter stereotypical old chestnuts. I didn't finish the book because as elegant and entertaining as the writer's style was, the book felt like an exploitation. It's creative fiction, not creative non-fiction.
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