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Press reviews of "The Shadow of the Sun" — a checklist

A complete checklist of press reviews of Ryszard Kapuściński's "The Shadow of the Sun" (Heban) from 1998 to 2001, drawn from the main Polish periodicals.

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A bibliographic checklist of press reviews. Review titles and periodical names are given in the original Polish.

• 1998 Wprost nr 49 s.118-9 Dzieło życia. Review by Halina Zaworska.

• 1998 Gazeta Wyborcza nr 281 s.14-15 Review by Piotr Bratkowski.

• 1998 Dziennik Polski nr 296 Pasja świata. Review by K. Maćkowski.

• 1998 Rzeczpospolita nr 301 dod.II Afryka rozpoznana. Review by Ewa Szumańska.

• 1998 Gazeta Wyborcza 1.12 Afryka, czyli co? Review by S. Bratkowski.

• 1998 Wprost 6.12 Dzieło życia. Review by Halina Zaworska.

• 1998 Rzeczpospolita 24-27.12 Poszukiwany Ryszard Kapuściński. Review by A. Kwiecień.

• 1998 Gazeta Wyborcza 24-27.12 Polowanie na Kapuścińskiego. Review by Wojciech Jagielski.

• 1999 Literatura na Świecie nr 1/2 s.380-83 Wyklęta część ziemi. Review by Marcin Kula.

• 1999 Nowe Książki nr 2 s. 20 Dotykanie kresu. Review by Michał Jagiełło.

• 1999 Konteksty nr 3 s.65-67 Review by Jacek Olędzki.

• 1999 Res Publica Nowa nr 3 s.63-65 Afryka, której nie ma … Review by Beata Nowacka.

• 1999 Znak nr 3 s.139-45 Czytanie kontynentu. Review by Leszek Szaruga.

• 1999 Twórczość nr 3 s.107-9 Skrzywdzony kontynent. Review by Leszek Bugajski.

• 1999 Odra nr 4 s.114-15 Review by Mariusz Urbanek.

• 1999 Dekada Literacka nr 11/12 s. 17 Nike honoris causa. Review by Michał Hanczakowski.

• 1999 Magazyn Literacki nr 19 s.59 Review by Krzysztof Masłoń.

• 1999 Tygodnik Powszechny nr 37 s.12 Tłumacz człowieka. Review by Michał Nawrocki.

• 1999 Africana Bulletin nr 47 s. 162-67 Review by Michał Dobroczyński [in English].

• 1999 Express Wieczorny 8.01 Przebój w czarnym kolorze. Review by P. Pokora.

• 1999 Nowa Trybuna Opolska 30-31.01 Afryka istnieje. Review by Krzysztof Ogiolda.

• 1999 The Warsaw Voice 3.10 The Phenomenon of Heban. Review in English by Magdalena Kuydowicz.

• 2000 Kwartalnik Artystyczny nr 1 s. 190-94 Heban. Review by Jerzy Jarzębski.

• 2000 Nowy Dziennik 15.12 Wyprawa w gląb. Review by Zygmunt Ziątka.

• 2001 Akcent nr 1/2 s. 269-76 Ludzie hebanowi - reporter przeciw stereotypom językowym . Review by Aneta Wysocka.

• 2001 Akant nr 7 s.38 Review by Michał Krzemkowski.

“The Shadow of the Sun” — the truth about dreams and their fulfilment. By Sławomir Lepak (a secondary-school essay, 2000)

• 2001 Helena Zaworska on The Shadow of the Sun.

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