The Shadow of the Sun - Ryszard Kapuściński In a cosy back alley

In a cosy back alley in Tokyo

The house is visited by ghosts

a nurse at a psychiatric care unit

she is sent to the mainland to work for one of the wealthy families on the coast

Nikolai Leskov is one of the most unique voices of nineteenth-century Russia

The Shadow of the Sun - Ryszard Kapuściński In a cosy back alleyRyszard Kapuscinski has been writing about the people of Africa throughout his career. In a study that avoids the official routes, palaces and big politics, he sets out to create an account of post colonial Africa seen at once as a whole and as a location that wholly defies generalised explanations. It is both a sustained meditation on the mosaic of peoples and practises we call 'Africa', and an impassioned attempt to come to terms with humanity