| Voices of Time: A Life in Stories Contributor(s): Galeano, Eduardo (Author), Fried, Mark (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0312426828 ISBN-13: 9780312426828 Publisher: Picador USA OUR PRICE: $21.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2007 Annotation: In this kaleidoscope of reflections, renowned South American author Eduardo Galeano ranges widely, from childhood to love, music, plants, fear, indignity, and indignation. In the signal style of his bestselling Memory of Fire trilogy--brief fragments that build steadily into an organic whole--Galeano offers a rich, wry history that is both calmly philosophical and fiercely political. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - Biography & Autobiography | Literary Figures - Biography & Autobiography | Cultural, Ethnic & Regional - Hispanic & Latino |
| Dewey: B |
| Physical Information: 0.9" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (1.05 lbs) 368 pages |
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| Publisher Description: A striking mosaic of memories, observations, and legends that together reveal the author's own story and a grand, compassionate vision of life itself In this kaleidoscope of reflections, renowned South American author Eduardo Galeano ranges widely, from childhood to love, music, plants, fear, indignity, and indignation. In the signal style of his bestselling and much-admired Memory of Fire trilogy--brief fragments that build steadily into an organic whole--Galeano offers a rich, wry history of his life and times that is both calmly philosophical and fiercely political. Beginning with blue algae, the earliest of life forms, these 333 vignettes alight on the Galeano family's immigration to Uruguay in the early twentieth century, the fate of love letters intercepted by a military dictatorship, abuses by the rich and powerful, the latest military outrages, and the author's own encounters with all manner of living matter, including generals, bums, dissidents, soccer stars, ducks, and trees. Out of these meditations emerges neither anger nor bitterness, but a celebration of a blessed life in a harsh world. Poetic and passionate, scathing and lyrical, delivered with Galeano's inimitable mix of gentle comedy and fierce moral judgment, Voices of Time is a deeply personal statement from a great and beloved writer. |
Contributor Bio(s): Galeano, Eduardo: - Eduardo Galeano (1940-2015) is the author of Upside Down, the Memory of Fire trilogy (for which he won the 1989 American Book Award), Open Veins of Latin America, and many other works. He lived in Montevideo, Uruguay.Fried, Mark: - Mark Fried is the translator of many works, including Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World and Voices of Time: A Life in Stories, both by Eduardo Galeano. |