The Book of Embraces - Hardcover

Galeano, Eduardo

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0393029603 ISBN 13: 9780393029604

Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company, 1991

Synopsis

Eduardo Galeano is one of the most brilliant and passionate literary voices from Latin America today. His newest work employs a style similar to Memory of Fire

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Review:

In an enchanting book of wonders, Uruguayan writer Galeano applies the collage-like technique of "Memory of Fire" . . . to his own life and the contemporary scene . . . Galeano's surreal drawings complement the text, blending wild imagination, pointed satire and old-fashioned charm. "

The factual skeleton of the author's life is given flesh and blood in his strangely beautiful book, in which poetry, fiction, autobiography, history, fantasy and political commentary mingle and reinforce each other in unexpected ways. --Jay Parini"

In "The Book of Embraces", Galeano goes out on the tightrope and then levitates in the air above it. . . . [His] subject is nothing less that the variety of human life and love. --Alan Ryan"

[Galeano] is a dangerous radical storyteller, like Gabriel Garcia Marquez, like Isabel Allende, and like Pablo Neruda before them. . . . The Book of Embraces is a mosaic, or Deigo Rivera mural in words. --John Leonard"

In The Book of Embraces, Galeano goes out on the tightrope and then levitates in the air above it. . . . [His] subject is nothing less that the variety of human life and love. --Alan Ryan"

About the Author:

Eduardo Galeano (1940-2015) was the author of Open Veins of Latin America, Days and Nights of Love and War, The Book of Embraces, We Say No, and other works.

About this edition

• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Publication date: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0393029603
• ISBN 13: 9780393029604
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288