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Children of the Days A Calendar of Human History Synopsis
From Eduardo Galeano, one of Latin America's greatest living writers, author of the Memory of Fire trilogy, comes Children of the Days, a new kind of history that shows us how to remember and how to live. This book is shaped like a calendar. Each day brings with it a story: a journey, feast or tragedy that really happened on that date, from all possible years and all corners of the world. From Abdul Kassem Ismail, the tenth-century Persian who never went anywhere without his library - all seventeen thousand books of it, on four hundred camels; to the Brazilian city of Sorocaba, which on February 8 1980 responded to the outlawing of public kissing by becoming one huge kissodrome; to July 1 2008, the day the US government decided to remove Nelson Mandela's name from its list of dangerous terrorists, Children of the Days takes aim at the pretensions of official history and illuminates moments and heroes that we have all but forgotten. Through this shimmering historical mosaic runs a common thread, one that joins humanity's darkest hours to its sweetest victories.
About This Edition
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9780141975986 |
| Publication date: |
25th September 2014 |
| Author: |
Eduardo Galeano |
| Publisher: |
Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pagination: |
256 pages |
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Press Reviews
Eduardo Galeano Press Reviews
'A kind of epigrammatic excavation, uprooting stories that have been mislaid or misappropriated, and presenting them in their full glory, horror or absurdity ... with a wry and scathing wit'
Gary Younge Guardian
'Deeply humane ... he has produced literature that will endure, monuments to the imagination'
Toby Green
'Wonderful, glittering, remarkable'
Financial Times
'Marries meticulous journalistic detail with lyrical flair ... his inner Stephen Fry can point out that for Mayas, Jews, Arabs, the Chinese and others, January 1st doesn't herald the New Year at all, before adding the optimistic kicker that given the transience of time, this day is as good as any other to be bright and joyous as the colours of an outdoor market'
The Times
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About Eduardo Galeano
Eduardo Galeano is one of Latin America’s most distinguished writers. He is the author of the three volume Memory of Fire; Open Veins of Latin America; Soccer in Sun and Shadow; Days and Nights of Love and War; The Book of Embraces; Walking Words, We Say No, 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 been translated into twenty-eight 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, and the First Distinguished Citizen of the region by the countries of Mercosur.
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