A striking mosaic of memories, observations, and legends that together reveal the author's own story and a grand, compassionate vision of life itselfIn this kaleidoscope of reflections, renowned South American author Eduardo Galeano ranges widely, from childhood to love, music, plants, fear, indignity, and indignation. In the signal style of his bestselling and much-admired Memory of Fire trilogy—brief fragments that build steadily into an organic whole—Galeano offers a rich, wry history of his life and times that is both calmly philosophical and fiercely political.Beginning with blue algae, the earliest of life forms, these 333 vignettes alight on the Galeano family's immigration to Uruguay in the early twentieth century, the fate of love letters intercepted by a military dictatorship, abuses by the rich and powerful, the latest military outrages, and the author's own encounters with all manner of living matter, including generals, bums, dissidents, soccer stars, ducks, and trees. Out of these meditations emerges neither anger nor bitterness, but a celebration of a blessed life in a harsh world.Poetic and passionate, scathing and lyrical, delivered with Galeano's inimitable mix of gentle comedy and fierce moral judgment, Voices of Time is a deeply personal statement from a great and beloved writer.

Galeano, Eduardo, 1940-2015; Fried, Mark

Eduardo H Galeano; Mark Fried

Twenty-First Century Books, Incorporated

St. Martin's Press

1st American ed., New York, NY, United States, 2006

1st American ed., New York, New York State, 2006

United States, United States of America

Volume 1, 2006

xix, 341 pages ; 22 cm
"In this dazzling kaleidoscope of reflections, the renowned South American author Eduardo Galeano ranges widely, from childhood to love, from music and plants to fear, indignity, and indignation. In the signal style of his bestselling and much-admired Memory of Fire trilogy - brief fragments that build steadily into an organic whole - Galeano offers a rich, wry history of his life and times that is both calmly philosophical and fiercely political." "Beginning with blue algae, the earliest of life-forms, and jumping to the latest military outrage, these 333 vignettes alight on the Galeano family's immigration to Uruguay in the early twentieth century, the fate of love letters intercepted by a military dictatorship, abuses by the rich and powerful, and the author's own encounters with all manner of living matter, including generals, presidents, bums, dissidents, soccer stars, ducks, snakes, and trees. Out of these meditations emerges neither anger nor bitterness but a celebratory vision of a blessed life in a harsh world."--BOOK JACKET

"In this kaleidoscope of reflections, renowned South American author Eduardo Galeano ranges widely, from childhood to love, music, plants, fear, indignity, and indignation. In the signal style of his bestselling and much-admired Memory of Fire trilogy--brief fragments that build steadily into an organic whole--Galeano offers a rich, wry history of his life and times that is both calmly philosophical and fiercely political. Beginning with blue algae, the earliest of life forms, these 333 vignettes alight on the Galeano family's immigration to Uruguay in the early twentieth century, the fate of love letters intercepted by a military dictatorship, abuses by the rich and powerful, the latest military outrages, and the author's own encounters with all manner of living matter, including generals, bums, dissidents, soccer stars, ducks, and trees. Out of these meditations emerges neither anger nor bitterness, but a celebration of a blessed life in a harsh world"--Publisher's description

2024-07-01