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Mirrors: Stories Of almost Everyone (Translation)
[Paperback - 2009]
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Category: History
Sub-category: World History
Publisher: Bold Type Books Usa | ISBN: 9781568586120 | Pages: 391
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Throughout his career, Eduardo Galeano has turned our understanding of history and reality on its head. Isabelle Allende said his works “invade the reader's mind, to persuade him or her to surrender to the charm of his writing and power of his idealism.” Mirrors, Galeano's most ambitious project since Memory of Fire, is an unofficial history of the world seen through history's unseen, unheard, and forgotten. As Galeano notes: “Official history has it that Vasco Núñez de Balboa was the first man to see, from a summit in Panama, the two oceans at once. Were the people who lived there blind??” Recalling the lives of artists, writers, gods, and visionaries, from the Garden of Eden to twenty-first-century New York, of the black slaves who built the White House and the women erased by men's fears, and told in hundreds of kaleidoscopic vignettes, Mirrors is a magic mosaic of our humanity.

Eduardo Galeanowas a Uruguayan journalist, writer and novelist. His best known works areMemoria del fuego(Memory of Fire Trilogy, 1986) andLas venas abiertas de América Latina(Open Veins of Latin America, 1971) which have been translated into twenty languages and transcend orthodox genres: combining fiction, journalism, political analysis, and history.The author himself has proclaimed his obsession as a writer saying,"I'm a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past of America above all and above all that of Latin America, intimate land condemned to amnesia."He has received the International Human Rights Award by Global Exchange (2006) and the Stig Dagerman Prize (2010).

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