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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 Nunez 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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HistoryMiscellaneaNonfictionHistory, miscellaneaWorld historyMiscelánea
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Eduardo Galeano
3 September 1940 – 13 April 2015
Eduardo Galeano fue un periodista, escritor y novelista uruguayo. Sus obras más conocidas son *Memoria del fuego* (1986) y *Las venas abiertas de América Latina* (1971), traducidas a veinte idiomas y que trascienden los géneros ortodoxos: combinan ficción, periodismo, análisis político e historia. El propio autor proclamó su obsesión como escritor diciendo: "Soy un escritor obsesionado con recordar, con recordar el pasado de América sobre todo y sobre todo el de América Latina, tierra íntima condenada a la amnesia". Galeano recibió el Premio Internacional de Derechos Humanos de Global Exchange (2006) y el Premio Stig Dagerman (2010).
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