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Memory of Fire
  • Published: 4 March 2027
  • ISBN: 9781837314751
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 1296
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Memory of Fire

Genesis, Faces and Masks, Century of the Wind

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A monumental three-volume history of Latin America, spanning five centuries, by one of its most influential writers

Latin America, Eduardo Galeano believed, had been robbed twice over: of its gold and its silver, and of its memory. Memory of Fire is his answer – a blazing mosaic of five hundred years weaving together myth, memory, poetry, and storytelling – written to ‘rescue the kidnapped memory of all America’.
Vol. 1: Genesis takes us back to the start: to how time, fire, and language began, and what the hummingbird, jaguar, and tortoise meant, until Columbus steps ashore; then follows the wreckage of that mistake: Cortés burns his way into Tenochtitlán, Pizarro garrotes an Inca, and the silver mountain of Potosí devours its miners.
Vol. 2: Faces and Masks carries the story through revolutions made and revolutions betrayed – Túpac Amaru and Toussaint L'Ouverture, the slave ships, gold rushes, Bolívar, San Martín, Artigas, and the birth of multiple nations.
Vol. 3: Century of the Wind brings the twentieth century with electric light and moving pictures: Zapata and Sandino, Frida Kahlo and Che Guevara, the generals, death squads, and banana barons, completing one of the most original histories ever written.
  • Published: 4 March 2027
  • ISBN: 9781837314751
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 1296
Categories:

About the author

Eduardo Galeano

Eduardo Galeano was one of Latin America's most distinguished writers. He authored Open Veins of Latin America, Football in Sun and Shadow, The Book of Embraces, Walking Words, Upside Down, Voices in Time and Children of the Days. Born in Montevideo in 1940, he lived in exile in Argentina and Spain for years before returning to Uruguay. He was the recipient of many international prizes, and his work has been translated into twenty-eight languages. He died in April 2015.
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Praise for Memory of Fire

To publish Eduardo Galeano is to publish the enemy: the enemy of lies, indifference, above all of forgetfulness. His tenderness is devastating, his truthfulness furious

John Berger

Devastating, triumphant regeneration, sure to scorch the sensibility of English-language readers. It hopes to scandalize us into learning our sources - bibliographic and historic

New York Times

Unquestionably Galeano’s masterwork… a kind of secret history of the Americas

Scott Sherman, The Atlantic

An epic work of literary creation

Washington Post

Nothing less than a unified history of the Western Hemisphere . . . recounted in vivid prose

New Yorker

Deeply humane . . . he has produced literature that will endure, monuments to the imagination

Toby Green, Independent

Galeano rivals such masters of the fable as Kafka and that other Borges

Washington Post

One of the great writers of Latin America

Richard Gott, Guardian

Galeano's vision is unswerving, surgical and yet immensely generous and humane.... Eduardo Galeano ought to be a household name

Arundhati Roy

Galeano's prose is nearly lulling in its lyricism

Neil Gordon, New York Times Book Review

Galeano is an enchanting interpreter of history and its resonances, and a poetic voice of political dissent

Metro

The elegance of Galeano's words - they're just penetrating, so beautiful

San Francisco Chronicle

Galeano is a superstar in the Hispanic world ... His writing is full of candour, empathy, humane concern [and] he has a wonderful eye for the quirky ... he evokes the wonders of a remarkable world that is not so bad after all

John Paul Rathbone, Financial Times