Nobody Leaves. Impressions of Poland

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Nobody Leaves. Impressions of Poland. A masterpiece... a moving image of post-war Poland, and the first breathing of one of the essential voices of the twentieth century... the master of literary reportage.

– „The Times Literary Supplement”

When the great traveller-reporter Ryszard Kapuscinski was a young journalist in the early 1960's, he was sent to write about the farthest reaches of his native Poland. The resulting essays brought together here reveal a place as strange as any of the distant lands he visited on foreign assignments: caught between ties to the past and dreams of escape, a country on the edge of modernity.

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