This is not an official history of the world. It is about what happens between the cracks. It is about the forgotten, the overlooked, the marginalised.
Eduardo Galeano is one of Latin America's most distinguished writers. He is the author of the three-volume Memory of Fire; Open Veins of Latin America; Soccer in Sun and Shadow; The Book of Embraces; Walking Words; Upside Down; and Voices in Time. Born in Montevideo in 1940, he lived in exile in Argentina and Spain for years before returning to Uruguay. His work has been translated into twenty-eight languages. He is recipient of many international prizes.
Galeano's condensed history is, like life, at once dark and
fascinating
*Observer*
A kind of epigrammatic excavation, uprooting stories that have been
mislaid or misappropriated, and presenting them in their full
glory, horror or absurdity . . . with a wry and scathing wit
*Guardian*
Deeply humane . . . he has produced literature that will endure,
monuments to the imagination
*Independent*
Wonderful, glittering, remarkable
*Financial Times*
Marries meticulous journalistic detail with lyrical flair ... his
inner Stephen Fry can point out that for Mayas, Jews, Arabs, the
Chinese and others, January 1st doesn't herald the New Year at all,
before adding the optimistic kicker that given the transience of
time, this day is as good as any other "to be bright and joyous as
the colours of an outdoor market"
*The Times*
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