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Van Reybrouck, David

 
9780007562930: Congo: The compelling history and political biography of the Democratic Republic of Congo
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ISBN 10: 0007562934 ISBN 13: 9780007562930
Editorial: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd, 2015

Sinopsis

FINALIST FOR THE CUNDILL PRIZE FOR HISTORY

‘Not only deserves the description “epic”, in its true sense, but the term “masterpiece” as well’ Independent

This gripping epic tells the story of one of the world’s most critical failed nation-states: the Democratic Republic of Congo. Interweaving his own family’s history with the voices of a diverse range of individuals – charismatic dictators, feuding warlords, child soldiers, and many in the African diaspora of Europe and China – Van Reybrouck offers a deeply humane approach to political history, focusing squarely on the Congolese perspective and returning a nation’s history to its people.

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Acerca del autor

David Van Reybrouck is an award-winning author, acclaimed playwright, reporter, and poet who studied in Leuven and Cambridge and holds a doctorate from Leiden University. He has travelled extensively throughout Africa and has been actively involved in organizing literary workshops for Congolese playwrights in Kinshasa and Goma. He lives in Brussels.

De la contraportada

Hailed as "a monumental history . . . more exciting than any novel" (NRC Handelsblad),David van Reybrouck's rich and gripping epic, in the tradition of Robert Hughes' The Fatal Shore, tells the extraordinary story of one of the world's most devastated countries: the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Epic in scope yet eminently readable, penetrating and deeply moving, David van Reybrouck's Congo: The Epic History of a People traces the fate of one of the world's most critical, failed nation-state

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Editorial
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd
Año de publicación
2015
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Inglés
ISBN 10 
0007562934
ISBN 13 
9780007562930
Encuadernación
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Número de páginas
656
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