Mirrors
Stories of Almost Everyone
Eduardo Galeano
May 2009
ISBN: 1568584237
"There is a mysterious power in Galeano's storytelling. He uses his craft to invade the privacy of the reader's mind, to persuade him or her to read and to continue reading to the very end, to surrender to the charm of his writing and the power of his idealism." —Isabel Allende
Eduardo Galeano is one of our greatest storytellers. Throughout his career he has transcended genre and turned our understanding of history and reality on its head. Mirrors is his latest book of wonders, his most ambitious project since Memory of Fire—that landmark recreation of 500 years in the Americas. Mirrors is a sometimes bawdy, sometimes irreverent, sometimes heart-breaking unofficial history of the world seen—and mirrored to us—through the eyes and voices of history's unseen, unheard, and forgotten. As Galeano asks, "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?"
Taking in 5,000 years of history, recalling the lives of artists and writers, gods and visionaries from the Garden of Eden to twenty-first-century New York and Mumbai, and told in hundreds of kaleidoscopic vignettes that resurrect the lives of the "thinkers and the feelers, the curious, condemned for asking, rebels and losers and lovely lunatics who were and are the salt of the earth," Mirrors is a magic mosaic of our humanity.
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What readers are saying
"To publish Eduardo Galeano is to publish the enemy: the enemy of lies, indifference, above all of forgetfulness. Thanks to him, our crimes will be remembered. His tenderness is devastating, his truthfulness furious."
—John Berger
"Who else can make the skeletons dance the way Galeano does?"
—The New Yorker
"It's a feast of words."
—Danny Glover in the San Francisco Chronicle
One of Latin America's preeminent authors, producing a series of genre-defying works that freely combine parables, folklore, children's stories, satire, history, dreams and poetry."
—The Atlantic
"Like a brilliant conductor directing his own composition, Galeano calls upon the orchestra of the reader's imagination to bring history alive in a multi-media show with fireworks."
—The Washington Post
About the Authors
Eduardo Galeano is one of Latin America's most distinguished writers. He is the author of Memory of Fire (three volumes); Open Veins of Latin America; Soccer in Sun and Shadow; Days and Nights of Love and War; The Book of Embraces; Walking Words; Upside Down; and Voices of Time. Born in Montevideo, in 1940, he lived in exile in Argentina and Spain for years before returning to Uruguay. His work has inspired popular and classical music composers from all over the world, and has been translated into 28 languages. He is the recipient of many international prizes, including the first Lannan Prize for Cultural Freedom, the American Book Award, the Casa de las Américas prize, the Grinzane Cavour, and the First Distinguished Citizen of the region by the countries of Mercosur.
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