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Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone |  | Author: Eduardo Galeano
Publisher: Nation Books
Category: eBooks
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Rating:  13 reviews
Format: Kindle Book
Media: Kindle Edition
Edition: 1
Pages: 400
Number Of Items: 1
Dewey Decimal Number: 909
Publication Date: May 12, 2009
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Product 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 N??ez 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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 the context history provides July 26, 2010
Don Harrington (scottsdale, arizona USA)
Galeano provides the framework of how history affects and is part of the society we live in today. the truth he presents is fascinating and remarkable when one considers how a society acts and thinks and never questions what life and existence is really about
Absolutely Splendid May 27, 2010
D. Brett
Galeano has really done it again. This series of short excerpts is riveting and thought provoking. When I first purchased the book, and then noted the manner in which it was written, I was a bit perplexed. However, as soon as I started reading, I began to understand as this short excerpts compile to form a great whole with a deep message. I strongly recommend this text.
 Splendidly written April 29, 2010
Marcela Landres (Brooklyn, NY United States)
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Before you can know yourself, you must first know your history; to that end, read Galeano's Mirrors, a splendidly written, erudite telling of humankind's past.
Aengrossing and enlightening view of the history of civilization April 28, 2010
N. Bar-shlomo (Lowell, MA)
This book should be required reading in all high school and university history programs. A very different and enlightening view of the history of human civilization. At times darkly humorous, at times disturbing. It is an eye-opening piece of historical literature that holds the truth of mankind's history up to the light of day. An absolutely brilliant work and a joy to read.
Humanity's Scrapbook April 24, 2010
R. Jackson Ward
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Galeano strikes again, showing in that beautiful poetic way of his that though I may be lucky to have been born a human, I don't necessarily have to be proud of it! One can use these snapshots of humanity to feed cynicism, misanthropy, despair, or even selfishness - and I found myself at times slipping into just such responses. I have no hope that humans will evolve away from our tendencies to do the most ill for the least meaningful gains, but I'd like to believe that the truth, continually circulating through the world in the words and works of artists and authors, will continue to inspire just enough people to be exceptions to the rule - and be much happier for it.
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