Shah of Shahs
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Depicting the final years of the Shah in Iran, this book offers a meditation on the nature of revolution and the devastating results of fear. It describes the tyrannical monarch, who, despite his crue...
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Depicting the final years of the Shah in Iran, this book offers a meditation on the nature of revolution and the devastating results of fear. It describes the tyrannical monarch, who, despite his cruel oppression of the Iranian people, sees himself as the father of a nation, who can turn a backward country into a great power. Shah of Shahs depicts the final years of the Shah in Iran, and is a compelling meditation on the nature of revolution and the devastating results of fear. Here, Kapuscinski describes the tyrannical monarch, who, despite his cruel oppression of the Iranian people, sees himself as the father of a nation, who can turn a backward country into a great power - a vain hope that proves a complete failure. Yet even as Iran becomes a ''behemoth of riches'' and as the Shah lives like a European billionaire, its people live in a climate of fear, terrorized by the secret police. Told with intense power and feeling, Kapuscinski portrays the inevitable build-up to revolution - a cataclysmic upheaval that delivered Iran into the rule of the Ayatollah Khomeini.
Detaljer
Forlag
Penguin Classics
ISBN
9780141188041
Sprog
Engelsk
Sider
176
Udgivelsesdato
01-06-2006
Format
Paperback
Varenr.
1580430
EAN nr.
9780141188041
Varegruppe
Fiction paperback
Højde/Dybde (mm)
130
Bredde (mm)
192
Længde (mm)
12
Vægt (g)
138