Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone
| AUTHOR | Galeano, Eduardo |
| PUBLISHER | Bold Type Books (09/28/2010) |
| PRODUCT TYPE | Paperback (Paperback) |
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Throughout his career, Eduardo Galeano has turned our understanding of history and reality on its head. Isabelle Allende said his works "invade the reader's mind, to persuade him or her to surrender to the charm of his writing and power of his idealism." Mirrors, Galeano's most ambitious project since Memory of Fire, is an unofficial history of the world seen through history's unseen, unheard, and forgotten. As Galeano notes: "Official history has it that Vasco NÃ de Balboa was the first man to see, from a summit in Panama, the two oceans at once. Were the people who lived there blind " Recalling the lives of artists, writers, gods, and visionaries, from the Garden of Eden to twenty-first-century New York, of the black slaves who built the White House and the women erased by men's fears, and told in hundreds of kaleidoscopic vignettes, Mirrors is a magic mosaic of our humanity.
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ISBN-13:
9781568586120
ISBN-10:
1568586124
Binding:
Paperback or Softback (Trade Paperback (Us))
Content Language:
English
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Page Count:
400
Carton Quantity:
18
Product Dimensions:
5.48 x 1.09 x 8.16 inches
Weight:
1.02 pound(s)
Feature Codes:
Index,
Price on Product - Canadian,
Price on Product,
Illustrated
Country of Origin:
US
Subject Information
BISAC Categories
History | World - General
History | Essays
Grade Level:
College Freshman
and up
Dewey Decimal:
909
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Throughout his career, Eduardo Galeano has turned our understanding of history and reality on its head. Isabelle Allende said his works "invade the reader's mind, to persuade him or her to surrender to the charm of his writing and power of his idealism." Mirrors, Galeano's most ambitious project since Memory of Fire, is an unofficial history of the world seen through history's unseen, unheard, and forgotten. As Galeano notes: "Official history has it that Vasco NÃ de Balboa was the first man to see, from a summit in Panama, the two oceans at once. Were the people who lived there blind " Recalling the lives of artists, writers, gods, and visionaries, from the Garden of Eden to twenty-first-century New York, of the black slaves who built the White House and the women erased by men's fears, and told in hundreds of kaleidoscopic vignettes, Mirrors is a magic mosaic of our humanity.
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Author:
Galeano, Eduardo
EDUARDO GALEANO is the author of Open Veins of Latin America, Memory of Fire Trilogy, Book of Embraces and the forthcoming Upside Down
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