Eduardo Galeano | Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone
Recorded 6/2/2009
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The works of Uruguayan journalist Eduardo Galeano, writes author Isabel Allende ''invade the reader's mind, to persuade him or her to surrender to the charm of his writing and the power of his idealism.'' Transcending orthodox genres, Galeano weaves a tapestry of fiction, journalism, political analysis, and history, in Memory of Fire, a three volume narrative history of the Americas that earned widespread critical acclaim. Told in hundreds of kaleidoscopic vignettes and free of the restriction of chronology, Mirrors distills epic volumes of human history into potent examples of shared experience.