Shah of Shahs - Penguin Modern Classics (Paperback)

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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.

Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780141188041Number of pages: 176Weight: 140 gDimensions: 196 x 128 x 16 mm

MEDIA REVIEWS

'A book of great economy and power...with vivid imagery,a breathless way of writing that carries the reader along,and a supreme sense of the absurd.'- New Republic

'Like Sir Richard Butron,Evelyn Waugh and Mungo Park,(Kapuscinski) makes literature out of journalism.'- Newsweek

'Insightful and important.... A readable,timely and valuable contribution to the understanding of the revolutionary forces at work in Iran.... The reader almost becomes a participant.'- The New York Times Book Review

'A supercharged particle of a book.'- Los Angeles Times

Ryszard Kapuscinski

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Christopher de Bellaigue

Journalist Christopher de Bellaigue has long graced the pages of the New York Review of Books,Granta,The New Yorker and The Guardian,debuting in 2005 with the well-regarded In the Rose Garden of the Martyrs: A Memoir of Iran. His focus has chiefly centred on the histories of Iran and Turkey,including the comprehensive biography of former Prime Minister of Iran,Mohammad Mossadegh,in Patriot of Persia: Muhammad Mossadegh and a Tragic Anglo-American Coup.

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