Century of the Wind, Volume 3

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Pantheon, 1988 - Fiction - 320 pages
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The third volume of Galeano's highly praised history of the Americas offers us our own turbulent century, from its first apocalyptic intimations to the age of Reagan.

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Covering the 20th Century up to 1984 this is the third and last of the three volumes of this work by Galeano. There is no way to describe it other than by confessing the sense of humbleness one is ... Read full review

Memory of fire

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In the brilliant finale to the "Memory of Fire'' trilogy ( LJ 10/1/85; 6/1/87), Galeano brings his fictionalized history of Latin America up to 1984, the year he ended his exile from his native ... Read full review

Contents

In All Latin America Processions Greet the Birth of
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Ilopango Miguel at One Week
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Caracas Castro
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About the author (1988)

Eduardo Galeano, born September 3, 1940, in Montevideo, Uruguay, has had a long and active career as a journalist, historian, and political activist. At the age of 13, he began publishing cartoons for the Uruguayan socialist newspaper El Sol. When he was in his early 30s, Galeano was imprisoned during a right-wing military coup and later forced to flee from Uruguay to Argentina. Later, another coup and several death threats forced him to leave Argentina for Spain where he lived in exile until he was permitted to return to Uruguay in 1984. Days and Nights of Love and War resulted from an open conversation with his own memory as he tried to understand what had really happened in his life. He has written numerous books including Football in Sun and Shadow; Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent; Guatemala: Occupied Country; and The Book of Embraces. In 1989, Galeano won the American Book Award for Memory of Fire.

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TitleCentury of the Wind, Volume 3
Century of the Wind
Memory of Fire, Vol III
Volume 3 of Memoria del fuego, Eduardo H. Galeano
AuthorsEduardo Galeano, Cedric Belfrage
Translated byCedric Belfrage
PublisherPantheon, 1988
Original fromthe University of Virginia
DigitizedMar 5, 2008
ISBN0394553616, 9780394553610
Length320 pages
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America
Fiction / General
History / Latin America / General
History / Latin America / South America
Latin America
  
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