Faces and Masks - eBook

Eduardo Galeano (1940–2015) was one of Latin America’s most distinguished writers. He was the author of the trilogy 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, Voices of Time, Upside Down, Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone, and Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History. Born in Montevideo, he lived in exile in Argentina and Spain for years before returning to Uruguay. His work has inspired popular and classical composers and playwrights from all over the world and has been translated into twenty-eight languages. He was 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.

"[Galeano’s] works invent genre by smashing categories and joining fragments to yield a ’voice of voices.’ . . . Memory of Fire is devastating, triumphant . . . sure to scorch the sensibility of English-language readers." —The New York Times Book Review

"From pre-Columbian creation myths and the first European voyages of discovery and conquest to the Age of Reagan, here is ’nothing less than a unified history of the Western Hemisphere . . . recounted in vivid prose.’ " —The New Yorker

"A massive fresco of Latin American history since the pre-Columbian era to modern times." —Isabel Allende

"An extraordinary canter through the history of the Americas." —Isabel Fonseca

"[Galeano’s] tenderness is devastating, his truthfulness furious." —John Berger

"History has been rescued by Galeano’s prodigious talent. No book ever breathed more vibrantly than this one." —Houston Chronicle

"Passionate and lyrical, lucidly visual." —The New Statesman

"Galeano’s outrage is tempered by intelligence, an ineradicable sense of humor, and hope." —Los Angeles Times