The Shadow of the Sun

Plywood

In 1958, Ryszard Kapuściński arrived in Ghana as Poland's first and only foreign correspondent, at the forefront of Africa's liberation wave. For over thirty years thereafter, he roamed this "impossibly vast" continent, traveling between dozens of countries and regions, doing everything in his power to appear in those hidden places – whether at the scene of bloody conflicts, military coups, or in villages struggling for survival in the jungle – sending back immediate reports from every front, attempting to present a true Africa to the world.
For a long time, he "nomadically" delved into all strata of society in Africa: entering the residences of generals and ministers, and also visiting the command centers of rebel leaders; hitchhiking across the Sahara with nomads, and also visiting tribes inaccessible to outsiders. He lived next door to Nigerian displaced people in shantytowns, where the poorest people on the planet "built an entire city without a single brick, a single steel bar, or a single square meter of glass." In Zanzibar during a coup, "a sad black star," a transit point for four hundred years of slave trade, he touched the deepest and perpetually painful scar of Black Africa. On the hot plains of Dakar, he went door-to-door visiting villagers, the entire village "like a submarine on the seabed: it was there, but emitted no signals, silent, motionless"...
The book ultimately presents a unique picture of Africa: there are landscapes of extreme beauty, as if at the dawn of the world, and it is also a turbulent sea where countless tribes, nations, cultures, and forces intertwine. Only Kapuściński could have written such a book, not only because of the extraordinary creativity of this "journalist of the century," but also because he happened to be there at those moments.
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🟡 "King of Reportage," Nobel Prize-nominated "journalist of the century," a chronicle of Africa integrating history, travel, and human observation, selected for the Penguin Classics "Greatest Journeys of All Time" series.
🟡 Witnessing the forefront of revolutionary waves, on-the-spot immediate reporting; delving deep into the hidden interior, touching the heartbeat and scars of the Black Continent; amidst terror and wonder, hope and absurdity, revealing an Africa obscured by layers.
🟡 First Chinese edition, translated directly from Polish, featuring a special preface by Kapuściński's daughter, Ms. Lena Meissner, "A Speck of Our Planet," and an afterword by renowned author Geoff Dyer, "A Journey Into the Interior."

2025-06-01

民主与建设出版社

Ideal Country

456

9787513949033