On Sale: Apr 30, 2013
Page Count: 432 pages
Publisher: Bold Type Books
ISBN-13: 9781568589718

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A fearless, poetic, day-by-day account of human history, narrated by one of Latin America's most beloved and influential writers

"The amazing Galeano has done it again. History becomes poetry, and mythology becomes politic." — The San Francisco Chronicle

Unfurling like a medieval book of days, each page of Eduardo Galeano’s Children of the Days has an illuminating story that takes inspiration from that date of the calendar year, resurrecting the heroes and heroines who have fallen off the historical map. Readers will encounter the Brazilians who held a “smooch-in” to protest against a dictatorship; the astonishing day Mexico invaded the United States; and the “sacrilegious” women who had the effrontery to marry each other in a church in the Galician city of A Coruna in 1901, and many others.

Beautifully translated by Galeano’s longtime collaborator, Mark Fried, Children of the Days is a majestic humanist treasure that shows us how to live, guiding us through our darkest hours and sweetest victories.

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Eduardo Galeano

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Eduardo Galeano (1940-2015) was one of Latin America’s most distinguished writers. A Uruguayan journalist, writer, and novelist, he is the author of the three-volume Memory of Fire, Open Veins of Latin America, Soccer in Sun and Shadow, and others. Born in Montevideo in 1940, he lived in exile in Argentina and Spain for years before returning to Uruguay.

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