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Days and Nights of Love and War is the personal testimony of one of Latin America's foremost contemporary political writers. In this fascinating journal and eloquent history, Eduardo Galeano movingly records the lives of struggles of the Latin American people, under two decades of unimaginable violence and extreme repression. Alternating between reportage, personal vignettes, interviews, travelogues, and folklore, and richly conveyed with ange...

Sinopsis: Una obra de creación literaria, concebida como una trilogía, en la que el autor se propone narrar la historia de América, revelar sus múltiples dimensiones y penetrar sus secretos. El primer volumen, Los nacimientos, se despliega a través de los mitos indígenas de fundación y alcanza hasta el año 1700. El segundo volumen, Las caras y las máscaras, abarca los siglos XVI...

A superbly written, excellently translated, and powerfully persuasive exposA(c) which all students of Latin American and U.S. history must read."--Choice" "Well written and passionately stated, this is an intellectually honest and valuable study."--Library Journal" "A dazzling barrage of words and ideas." "--History

Sinopsis: Una obra de creación literaria, concebida como una trilogía, en la que el autor se propone narrar la historia de América, revelar sus múltiples dimensiones y penetrar sus secretos. El primer volumen, Los nacimientos, se despliega a través de los mitos indígenas de fundación y alcanza hasta el año 1700. El segundo volumen, Las caras y las máscaras, abarca los siglos XVI...

Pleno de gracia y de profundidad indudable." Germán Vargas, Cronos, Colombia. "Este libro destila América por todos los poros. ¡Dichosa La tierra que tiene un trovador que La descubre a sus semejantes!" José Ángel Bermejo, Diario 16, España "Galeano recupera para la literatura la capacidad de recrear el mundo." Josep Morreres, Diario de Barcelona, España. "Una original manera de decir, una esc...

Sampiyonanin bir baska sürprizi de Türkiyeydi. Hic kimse bu ülkenin önemli bir basari elde edecegine inanmiyordu. Türkiye, dünya kupalarindan elli yildir uzakti. Brezilyaya karsi oynadigi ilk macta hakemin karariyla göz göre göre haksizliga ugradi, ama yoluna devam etti ve sonunda ücüncü oldu. Enerjik ve kaliteli futboluyla kendisini kücük gören uzmanlarin agzini acik birakti.Gercek bir futbol tutkunu olan Uruguayli ünlü yazar Eduardo Galeano,...

Sinopsis: Este libro rinde homenaje al fútbol, música del cuerpo, fiesta de los ojos, y también denuncia las estructuras de poder de uno de los negocios más lucrativos del mundo. "La tecnocracia del deporte profesional" -escribe el autor- "ha ido imponiendo un fútbol de pura velocidad y mucha fuerza, que renuncia a la alegría, atrofia la fantasía y prohíbe la osadía. Por suerte ...

En esta antología, Galeano cuenta la intensidad de personajes femeninos atravesados por el peso de una causa, como Rosa Luxemburgo o Rigoberta Menchú, por su propia hermosura o talento, como Marilyn Monroe o Rita Hayworth, Camille Claudel o Josephine Baker. Pero también cuenta las hazañas colectivas de mujeres anónimas: las que lucharon en la Comuna de París, las guerreras de la revolución mexicana, las que –en un prostíbulo de la Patagonia ar...

Genesis, " the first volume in Eduardo Galeano's "Memory of Fire" trilogy, is both a meditation on the clashes between the Old World and the New and, in the author's words, an attempt to "rescue the kidnapped memory of all America." It is a fierce, impassioned, and kaleidoscopic historical experience that takes us from the creation myths of the Makiritare Indians of the Yucatan to Columbus's first, joyous moments in the New World to the Englis...

A superbly written, excellently translated, and powerfully persuasive exposA(c) which all students of Latin American and U.S. history must read."--Choice" "Well written and passionately stated, this is an intellectually honest and valuable study."--Library Journal" "A dazzling barrage of words and ideas." "--History

In Walking Words world-renowned author Eduardo Galeano draws on the folklore of rural and urban Latin America to discover and retell "the stories of ghouls and fools that Id like to write." These tales are beautifully illustrated by his collaborator, the Brazilian woodcut artist José Francisco Borges, and become testaments to the power of stories to make and remake and enchant the world.

HISTORY / Latin America / General

In this kaleidoscope of reflections, renowned South American author Eduardo Galeano ranges widely, from childhood to love, music, plants, fear, indignity, and indignation. In the signal style of his bestselling Memory of Fire trilogy--brief fragments that build steadily into an organic whole--Galeano offers a rich, wry history that is both calmly philosophical and fiercely political.

A thrilling ride through a century of revolution, reaction and resistance

POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General

LITERARY CRITICISM / European / Spanish & Portuguese

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In this witty and rebellious history of world soccer, award-winning writer Eduardo Galeano searches for the styles of play, players, and goals that express the unique personality of certain times and places. In Soccer in Sun and Shadow , Galeano takes us to ancient China, where engravings from the Ming period show a ball that could have been designed by Adidas to Victorian England, where gentlemen codified the rules that we still play by today...

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