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The Hunting Party
by Pierre Christin
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Catalan Communications (1990-02)
ISBN: 0874160537
EAN: 9780874160536
Paperback
Condition: Very Good
Comments: Book is in Very Good Condition. Book shows some cover wear/marks. Book is completely intact with inside pages in excellent condition with no notations (no pencil marks, no underlining, etc.) Collector's Companion: Serving the Antiques and Collectibles Market since 1982. Fast Service. Books mailed USPS.
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Product Description
Ten members of the Soviet Politburo gather at a sumptuous country home for a weekend of shooting. In reality, this winter hunt is only an excuse for an elaborate game of death filled with suspense and intrigue. A fascinating story which reads like a ruthless dissection of power. A surreal blend of realism, political fiction, and suspense.
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Customer Reviews
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Eastern European history in a dazzling nutshell
Rating  (5)
Date: 2004-02-07
6 out of 6 customers found this reveiw helpful
A group of old men gathers on an estate in Poland for a hunting party. It's the early 1980s...the Warsaw Pact is still in existence, but cracks are starting to appear. The men in the hunting party are highly influential members of each of the various countries' communist parties. A young French communist acts as translator, and he slowly discovers the story of each of these men, how their idealism eroded, how the Soviet Union loomed over them and their countries...
It's a fantastic story, outstanding writing by Pierre Christin and Enki Bilal's artwork is just extraordinary. Bilal uses color schemes as symbols, it took me awhile to catch on. See of you can figure out what his use of the colors red and yellow symbolizes.
Buy this wonderful, tragic story that ends on a strangely prophetic optimistic note, and get a painless education in how the countries in Eastern Europe after WW2 learned to hate/love
the Soviet Union.
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