Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone - Softcover

Galeano, Eduardo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1568586124 ISBN 13: 9781568586120

Publisher: Nation Books, 2010

Synopsis

Mirrors is a sometimes bawdy, sometimes irreverent, sometimes heartbreaking unofficial history of the world seen and mirrored to usthrough the eyes and ears of historys unseen, unheard, and forgotten. Spanning 5,000 years of history, recalling the lives of artists and writers, 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 our worlds oft-forgotten thinkers and feelers. Mirrors is a mosaic of our humanity.

About this title

Review:

'Galeano's book is pure delight - a cornucopia of wonderful stories. It should be by everyone's bedside' - Guardian --Review

'Galeano's skill as a writer makes this book easy to read, funny and profound' - Scotland on Sunday --Review

'Galeano is an enchanting interpreter of history and its resonances, and a poetic voice of political dissent' - Metro --Review

`Mesmerising, passionate and dazzlingly original. Highly recommended' - Books Quarterly --Review

'His most ambitious work since Memory of Fire' - London Review of Books
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About the Author:

Eduardo Galeano’s works include Memory of Fire (three volumes), Open Veins of Latin America, and more; they have been translated into twenty-eight languages. Born in Montevideo, Galeano lived in exile in Argentina and Spain for years before returning to Uruguay. He was the recipient of the first Lannan Prize for Cultural Freedom.

About this edition

• Publisher: Nation Books
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 1568586124
• ISBN 13: 9781568586120
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 399