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Also by Eduardo Galeano:

Soccer In Sun And Shadow, June 2014
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Voices of Time, May 2006
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Open Veins of Latin America, January 1997
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VOICES OF TIME
By: Eduardo Galeano

A striking mosaic of memories, observations, and legends that together reveal the author?s own story and a grand, compassionate vision of life itself

Metropolitan Books
May 2006
368 pages
ISBN: 0805077677
Hardcover
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Fiction | Literature and Fiction

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.

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.

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