by Ryszard Kapuściński · Feltrinelli Traveller · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788807817069
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«Ébano» is Ryszard Kapuściński's book of reportage on Africa, published by Feltrinelli Traveller in paperback (277 pages, in Italian).
Kapuściński ventures into Africa with no fixed itineraries or clichés: he lives in poor neighbourhoods, suffers cerebral malaria and faces danger, and with that experience portrays concrete people and places, from Idi Amin to Rwanda, from a day in a village to Lalibela. The author warns that the book is not about Africa, but about some of its people.
Work originally published as «Heban» in 1998; this 2002 Italian edition was translated by Vera Verdiani and belongs to the Universale Economica collection.
For readers of narrative journalism and travel writing with an interest in contemporary Africa, its history and its conflicts.
Ryszard Kapuściński was a Polish journalist, photographer and author. He received many prestigious awards and was considered a candidate for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Kapuściński's personal journals in book form attracted both controversy and admiration for blurring the conventions of reportage with the allegory and magical realism of literature. He was the Communist-era Polish Press Agency's only correspondent in Africa during decolonization, and also worked in South America and Asia. Between 1956 and 1981 he reported on 27 revolutions and coups, until he was fired because of his support for the pro-democracy Solidarity movement in his native country. He was celebrated by other practitioners of the genre. The acclaimed Italian reportage-writer Tiziano Terzani, Colombian writer Gabriel García Márquez, and Chilean writer Luis Sepúlveda accorded him the title "Maestro".
