Children of the Days
A Calendar of Human History
Unfurling like a medieval book of days, each page of Eduardo Galeano's Children of the Days has an illuminating story that takes inspiration from that date of the calendar year, resurrecting the heroes and heroines who have fallen off the historical map, but whose lives remind us of our darkest hours and sweetest victories. Challenging readers to consider the human condition and our own choices, Galeano elevates the little-known heroes of our world and decries the destruction of the intellectual, linguistic, and emotional treasures that we have all but forgotten. Readers will discover many inspiring narratives in this collection of vignettes:…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-56858-971-8
- EAN: 9781568589718
- Produktnummer: 22910997
- Verlag: PublicAffairs
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 432 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 4'354 KB
- Sonstiges: Ab 13 - 99 J.
Über den Autor
Eduardo Galeano (1940-2015) was one of Latin America's most distinguished writers. A Uruguayan journalist, writer, and novelist, he was considered, among other things, a literary giant of the Latin American left and global soccer's preeminent man of letters. He is the author of the three-volume Memory of Fire, Open Veins of Latin America, Soccer in Sun and Shadow, The Book of Embraces, Walking Words, Upside Down, and Voices in Time. Born in Montevideo in 1940, he lived in exile in Argentina and Spain for years before returning to Uruguay. His work has been translated into twenty-eight languages. He is the recipient of many international prizes, including the first Lannan Prize for Cultural Freedom, the Casa de las Americas Prize, and the First Distinguished Citizen of the region by the countries of Mercosur. Galeano once described himself as a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past of America and above all that of Latin America, intimate land condemned to amnesia. Isabel Allende, who said her copy of Galeano's book was one of the few items with which she fled Chile in 1973 after the military coup of Augusto Pinochet, called Open Veins of Latin America a mixture of meticulous detail, political conviction, poetic flair, and good storytelling.
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