King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa Medical Thrillers in the wrong hands

in the wrong hands

a ghost story

moving and reflective

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A PARADE BEST BOOK OF ALL TIME • From the acclaimed Nobel Prize winner—a powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity that asks questions about race

King Leopold's Ghost: A Story of Greed, Terror, and Heroism in Colonial Africa Medical Thrillers in the wrong handsThe 25th Anniversary Edition, with a foreword by Barbara Kingsolver "An enthralling story . . . A work of history that reads like a novel." Christian Science Monitor As Hochschilds brilliant book demonstrates, the great Congo scandal prefigured our own times . . . This book must be read and reread. Los Angeles Times Book Review A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist * A New York Times Notable Book In the late nineteenth century, as the European