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Memory of Fire

Eduardo Galeano,

Cedric Belfrage (Translator)

Start date: October 1, 2019

Finish date: December 31, 2019

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Jan 05, 2020 Kristel rated it really liked it · review of another edition

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Eduardo Galeano was a was an Uruguayan journalist, writer and novelist considered, a literary giant of the Latin American left". In this work of fiction that reads like history and is history the author presents the history of America (Canada, US, Mexico, Central, and South America in this trilogy The Memory of Fire that covers the time period of the 1500s to 1984. I especially enjoyed book 1 and 2 which covers up to 1900s. The latter, more recent history was interesting to explore from the pers ...more

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Jan 05, 2020 Pip rated it it was amazing

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The three volumes of this work are a revelation. Galeaono writes a series of vignettes which span the whole history of the Americas from stories of creation to 1984. He concentrates particularly on Central and South America and the treatment of indigenous peoples by colonial forces and U.S. imperialism, but the United States gets some coverage and Canada hardly at all. Because his stories are written in the present tense the tales they tell are immediate, fascinating and beautifully written. Thi ...more

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