{"product_id":"imperium-by-ryszard-kapuscinski","title":"'Imperium' by Ryszard Kapuściński","description":"\u003ch4\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eMoving across the Soviet sphere as both witness and inheritor of its violence, Kapuściński writes not as a detached analyst but as someone alert to atmosphere, absurdity, fear, fatigue, and the strange textures of political collapse.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp data-start=\"2508\" data-end=\"2862\"\u003eKapuściński is interested in weather, queues, faces, silences, the habits people develop under power, and the psychic residue left when an empire rots but does not quite disappear. A brilliant, uneasy study of the Soviet world as lived experience rather than geopolitical diagram.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e1995 Granta Books edition, translated by Klara Glowczewska. Paperback in good condition.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44271339274323,"sku":null,"price":14.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/Untitleddesign-2026-03-24T154402.605.png?v=1774327559","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/imperium-by-ryszard-kapuscinski","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}