| The Book of Embraces Revised Edition Contributor(s): Galeano, Eduardo (Author), Belfrage, Cedric (Translator) |
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ISBN: 0393308553 ISBN-13: 9780393308556 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company OUR PRICE: $15.26 Product Type: Paperback Published: April 1992 Annotation: "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".--The New York Times Book Review. Drawings. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 00000000 |
| Series: Norton Paperback |
| Physical Information: 0.7" H x 5.5" W x 8.2" (0.50 lbs) 288 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Eduardo Galeano's is considered a passionate literary voice. In The Book of Embraces, he employs parable and paradox, anecdote and dream, and fragments of autobiography to construct a passionate, ironic and joyful world view. The world reveals itself in a multiplicity of voices; what emerges is a brief for love, friendship, courage, perseverance and imagination. Galeano also wrote Memory of Fire. |
Contributor Bio(s): Galeano, Eduardo: - 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.Belfrage, Cedric: - Cedric Belfrage was an author, journalist, translator, and co-founder of the radical weekly newspaper the National Guardian. English by birth, he was deported by the U.S. government back to England in 1955, and later became the translator for the Uruguayan author Eduardo Galeano. |