# The Porcupine

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- Book: [The Porcupine](https://www.bookquiver.com/julian-barnes/the-porcupine) ([The Porcupine.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/julian-barnes/the-porcupine.md))
- Authors: [Julian Barnes](https://www.bookquiver.com/julian-barnes)
- Publisher: Vintage
- ISBN: 978-06-7974-482-5
- Pages: 160
- Published: 1993-09-28
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

The bestselling, Booker Prize-winning author of The Sense of an Ending trains his laser-bright prose on the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe. Stoyo Petkanov, the deposed Party leader, is placed...