Eduardo Galeano assembles a mosaic of very short pieces: memories, anecdotes, fables, dreams, and sketches of history, each a paragraph or a page. Written by a Uruguayan who spent years in exile under dictatorship, they move between childhood, the body, football, storytelling, torture, and the long record of Latin America's conquests and resistances. Galeano's own pen drawings sit among the text, and the entries echo one another without following a plot or a chronology.
This is a book to dip into rather than march through, and it rewards readers who like their politics tucked inside poetry. If you want a way into Latin American history that is intimate rather than academic, or simply enjoy writers who can land an idea in three sentences, Galeano's fragments stay with you for a long time.
Deep, inward-looking and contemplative; a moderate read.
Best for readers like The Mindful Reader. Which reader are you?
- Published
- 1989
- Language
- EN
