by Ryszard Kapuściński · Feltrinelli Editore · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788807015694
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«Ebano» is the reportage book by Polish journalist Ryszard Kapuściński, published by Feltrinelli in paperback (280 pages, in Italian).
Kapuściński moves away from clichés and tourist circuits to live among the inhabitants of poor neighborhoods in Africa. His reportages on Rwanda, Ethiopia and Liberia combine everyday life, politics and violence in a mosaic of encounters and voices, not a unitary portrait of the continent.
«Ebano» was originally published in Polish as Heban in 1998 and is part of Feltrinelli's I Narratori collection.
For readers interested in literary journalism, travel writing and the social and political reality of Africa.
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".
