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| Original Title: | Espejos: una historia casi universal |
| ISBN: | 1568584237 (ISBN13: 9781568584232) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Eduardo Galeano
Hardcover | Pages: 391 pages Rating: 4.35 | 2997 Users | 391 Reviews
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| Title | : | Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone |
| Author | : | Eduardo Galeano |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 391 pages |
| Published | : | May 1st 2009 by Nation Books (first published April 3rd 2008) |
| Categories | : | History. Nonfiction. Short Stories. Writing. Essays |
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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.
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Ratings: 4.35 From 2997 Users | 391 ReviewsEvaluate About Books Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone
At first, I didn't enjoy it as much as the other books I've read by Galeano (namely The Memory of Fire trilogy). He seems to be at his best when describing characters rather than disembodied events, which is may be why I found his nameless stories about prehistory to be less engaging. However, Mirrors picks up breakneck speed toward the end. One might expect Galeano's "formula" to get tiresome, but the punches he manages to deliver with his final lines are as incisive as ever.The world is not respectable; it is mortal, tormented, confused, deluded forever; but it is shot through with beauty, with love, with glints of courage and laughter; and in these, the spirit blooms timidly, and struggles to the light amid the thorns.George Santayana
a sporadic sampling:-Water and light-Back in the year 1600-something, sculptor Luis de la Pena wanted to sculpt light. In his workshop on an alley in Granada, he spent his entire life trying and failing.It never occurred to him to look up. There, on the crest of a hill of red earth, other artists had sculpted light, and water too. In the turrets and gardens of the Alhambra, crown of the Muslim kingdom, those artists had made the impossible possible.The Alhambra is not a stationary sculpture. It
This is a fine, fine book. It's a collection of vignettes, poems, arguments, observations and pictures. Each entry is very brief, averaging about 3 per 2 pages. All of these items combine, by their selection and execution, to express a view of world history, wherein the privileged few abuse their advantage and the defeated and impoverished are blamed for their conditionI really admire this book. It doesn't set out with the traditional objective of building a case by identifying dots on a
The fact that the top reviews here are not in Latin script tells you something about the book. With this book, an incomplete history of the modern era, Galeano explores the obscure, the arcane, the suppressed, the aphorisms, the anecdotes, etc. all while deploying a powerful critique of Power. Because the book is broken into fragmentary history, I was able to devour it rapidly, but not lightly. Being a student of the oppressed, I was familiar with many of the tales here, and while most were new
Eduardo Galeano is a world treasure. His insight, poetry, and knowledge of the historical truth (we're never taught) is unrivaled. I stopped underlining when i realized that every line should be highlighted.If you want to know the story of the world, the REAL story - not the past as written by the predatory "winners" - read Galeano. Every page is so loaded with good stuff that i find i read his work very slowly- like devouring a good meal - you can't take in more until that's digested.pg. 246 -
A tour de force, one for the ages. Stories that are true providing proof that you never learn from history, that truth really is stranger than fiction, that there is so much you don't know, that what happens today is connected to much that happens in the past, that power corrupts, that you can fight against the times - but that you almost never win, that imperialism is parasitic and still around, that women had to fight to talk today of leaning in, that slavery was the most profitable trade for
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