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King Leopold's Ghost
Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
Winner of the Duff Cooper Prize, King Leopold’s Ghost is the true and haunting account of Leopold's brutal regime and its lasting effect on a ruined nation. With an introduction by award-winning novelist Barbara Kingsolver.
In the late nineteenth century, a time when Africa was being parcelled among European powers, King Leopold of Belgium seized vast, untapped territories around the Congo...
Details
400 pages
Imprint: Picador
Reviews
All the tension and drama that one would expect in a good novelRobert Harris
A history like none other . . . an amazing bookTariq Ali, Financial Times