Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone Contributor(s): Galeano, Eduardo (Author) |
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ISBN: 1568586124 ISBN-13: 9781568586120 Publisher: Bold Type Books
Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: September 2010 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | World - General - History | Essays |
Dewey: 909 |
Age Level: 18-UP |
Grade Level: 13-UP |
Physical Information: 1.09" H x 5.48" W x 8.16" L (1.02 lbs) 400 pages |
Features: Illustrated, Index, Price on Product, Price on Product - Canadian |
Review Citations: New York Times Book Review 12/19/2010 pg. 20 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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 NĂ 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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