https://kapuscinski.info/en/tags/beata-nowacka/Recent content in Beata-Nowacka on kapuscinski.infoHugoen-USMon, 01 Jan 2024 00:00:00 +0000https://kapuscinski.info/en/books/the-emperor/the-magician-of-reportage-review-of-the-emperor/Fri, 05 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0000https://kapuscinski.info/en/books/the-emperor/the-magician-of-reportage-review-of-the-emperor/<p><strong>Author: Beata Nowacka. Source: Gazeta Wyborcza. Date of publication: 2002-06-22</strong></p> <p>When &ldquo;The Emperor&rdquo; landed on the desk of the editor-in-chief of the Pan publishing house, he resolved to reject the book without reading it.</p> <p>The book did not look especially promising — a relation about the Ethiopian aristocrat Haile Selassie, ten years after his overthrow, written by an unknown Polish writer with a name composed of too many consonants and lost accents to be pronounceable.</p>