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OverviewMirrors 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Eduardo GaleanoPublisher: Avalon Publishing Group Imprint: Nation Books Edition: First Trade Paper Edition Dimensions: Width: 21.40cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 13.80cm Weight: 0.470kg ISBN: 9781568586120ISBN 10: 1568586124 Pages: 400 Publication Date: 28 September 2010 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: No Longer Our Product Availability: Awaiting stock The supplier is currently out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you and placed on backorder. Once it does come back in stock, we will ship it out for you. Table of ContentsReviewsAuthor Information"Eduardo Galeano (1940-2015) was one of Latin America's most distinguished writers. A Uruguayan journalist, writer, and novelist, he was considered, among other things, ""a literary giant of the Latin American left"" and ""global soccer's preeminent man of letters."" He is the author of the three-volume Memory of Fire, Open Veins of Latin America, Soccer in Sun and Shadow, The Book of Embraces, Walking Words, Upside Down, and Voices in Time. Born in Montevideo in 1940, he lived in exile in Argentina and Spain for years before returning to Uruguay. His work has been translated into twenty-eight languages. He is the recipient of many international prizes, including the first Lannan Prize for Cultural Freedom, the Casa de las Americas Prize, and the First Distinguished Citizen of the region by the countries of Mercosur. Galeano once described himself as ""a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past of America and above all that of Latin America, intimate land condemned to amnesia."" Isabel Allende, who said her copy of Galeano's book was one of the few items with which she fled Chile in 1973 after the military coup of Augusto Pinochet, called Open Veins of Latin America ""a mixture of meticulous detail, political conviction, poetic flair, and good storytelling.""" Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |