Eduardo Galeano

By Eduardo Galeano

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  Use it and Dispose it

  NON FICTION, 2023

  Ecological collapse - and the discourse that continues to promote planetary disaster - have become a part of our everyday world. In this anthology, Eduardo Galeano proposes an alternative...

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  Open Veins of Latin America

  NON FICTION, 2022

  "I wrote Open Veins ... to share other people's ideas and experiences of my own that I thought might be of some help, realistically, in addressing the questions that have always plagued us: Is...

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  Football in Sun and Shadow

  NON FICTION, 2001

  This book pays homage to football, its bodily music and dancing eyes, while also denouncing the power structures of one of the most lucrative businesses in the world. ‘The technocracy of...

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  Children of the Days

  NARRATIVE, 2021

  Did you know that supposedly the most famous episode in Genesis, featuring Adam, Eve and the apple, doesn't actually appear in the Bible? That the Greek mathematician Eratosthenes measured the...

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  Guatemala. General Essay on Political Violence in Latin America

  ESSAY, 2020

  In 1967, a very young Eduardo Galeano undertook a trip that would mark his career as a journalist and his political sensitivity forever: he spent several months in Guatemala with the aim of...

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  Women

  ANTOLOGY, 2019

  Women who were major historical figures and women who were erased from its pages, women who dream and women punished for dreaming, women who survive and women who help us to survive. The women in...

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  Amares

  ANTHOLOGY, 2018

  «That's what the world is. A lot of people, a sea of little fires. Each person shines with his or her own light among all the others. In the end, we are what we do to change who we are. They...

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  Be like them and other articles

  ANTHOLOGY, 2017.

  «End of History? For us, it is nothing new. Already five centuries ago, Europe decreed that the memory and dignity of America were crimes. The new owners of these lands forbade to remember...

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  Days and Nights of Love and War

  NON FICTION, 2017

  In 1976, at the age of 36, Galeano begins a long exile that takes him first to Buenos Aires and later to Catalonia. Stricken by the disappearance, murder or exile of his companions, there he...

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  Vagamundo and Other Stories

  TALES, 2017

  If anything characterizes Vagamundo, it is to introduce us to Galeano as a storyteller. The characters of these articles and short stories cross the stories and themes that the author deals with...

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  Closed for Soccer

  ANTHOLOGY. 2017

  This book gathers all the texts Galeano wrote about soccer, most of them scattered in his published work, but also several unpublished and true finds, such as the chronicle in which, at only 23...

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  Walking Words

  NARRATIVE, 2017

  «I have come to José Borges' workshop to invite him to work together. I explain my project to him: images of him, his engraving arts, and words of mine. He is silent. And I talk and...

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  The Song of Us

  NOVEL, 2017

  The Song of Us is a novel of exile: the author evokes his forbidden land and recreates it through the adventures that intersect in its pages, on the background of the military dictatorship, in...

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  Hunter of Stories

  NON FICTION, 2016 (POSTHUMOUS BOOK)

  The 21st century is not turning out to be a great one. The abuses of a system made up of rich people getting richer and richer and screwed really screwed are the order of the day. The fleas are...

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  The Book of Embraces

  NON FICTION, 2015

  The Book of Embraces is a perfect example of the author's imagination at its most inspired. Celebrations, events, prophecies, chronicles, dreams, memories and hallucinations; extraordinarily...

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  Memory of Fire. 1. Genesis

  NON FICTION, 2015

  "Latin America has not just suffered the pillaging of its gold and silver, its rubber, copper and oil. Its memory has also been stolen so that it doesn't know where it comes from and can't tell...

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  Memory of Fire. 2. Faces and Masks

  NON FICTION, 2015

  Latin America has not just suffered the pillaging of its gold and silver, its rubber, copper and oil. Its memory has also been stolen so that it doesn't know where it comes from and can't tell...

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  Memory of Fire. 3 Century of the Wind

  NON FICTION, 2015

  Latin America has not just suffered the pillaging of its gold and silver, its rubber, copper and oil. Its memory has also been stolen so that it doesn't know where it comes from and can't tell...

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  Upside Down. The School of the World in Reverse

  NON FICTION, 2015

  After visiting Wonderland, Alice goes through the looking glass into an upside-down world. If Alice were to come back today, she wouldn't need a mirror, she'd just have to glance out the window....

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  Voices of time

  NARRATIVE, 2014

  This book offers a multitude of small stories that together tell a single story. The themes, diverse, build a plot capable of evoking the most pleasant aspects of human life, such as the links...

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  We Say No. Chronicles (1963-1988)

  NON FICTION, 2010

  This book gathers articles and reports published between 1963 and 1988, dealing with topics ranging from Latin American revolutions to the colonial heritage, passing through indigenous myths and...

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  Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone

  NARRATIVE, 2008

  This book has been written so that they will not leave. In these pages the past and the present come together. The dead are reborn, the anonymous are named: the men who raised the palaces and...

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  Story of the parrot's resurrection

  CHILDREN, 2008

  «The man regained his speech, and told how the parrot had drowned and the girl had cried and the orange had been stripped and the fire had gone out and the wall had lost a stone and the tree...