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With poetic virtuosity, Kapuscinski captures the confusion, the despair and also the flashes of hope that gripped Iran at that moment

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Shah of Shahs

by Ryszard Kapuściński

Other books by Ryszard Kapuściński

The Shadow of the Sun by Ryszard Kapuściński

Imperium by Ryszard Kapuściński

Our most recommended books

War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy

On Liberty by John Stuart Mill

Middlemarch by George Eliot

Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

The Odyssey by Homer and translated by Emily Wilson

Republic by Plato

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The Shadow of the Sun
by Ryszard Kapuściński

Imperium
by Ryszard Kapuściński

War and Peace
by Leo Tolstoy

On Liberty
by John Stuart Mill

Middlemarch
by George Eliot

Nineteen Eighty-Four
by George Orwell

The Odyssey
by Homer and translated by Emily Wilson

Republic
by Plato