Voices of Time A Life in Stories

Galeano, Eduardo & Mark Fried

ISBN 10: 0805077677 / ISBN 13: 9780805077674

Published by Metropolitan Books, New York, 2006

About this Item

Slight push to bottom spine end. ; Simply signed on the title page by Eduardo Galeano. Full number line. ; 8.40 X 5.80 X 1.30 inches; 368 pages.

Seller Inventory # 37771

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Voices of Time A Life in Stories
• Publisher: Metropolitan Books, New York
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0805077677
• ISBN 13: 9780805077674
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First American Edition; First Printing.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Modern Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

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

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.

About the Author

Eduardo Galeano is one of Latin America's most admired writers, as well as a distinguished journalist and historian. Winner of the first Lannan Foundation
Cultural Freedom Prize in 1998, he is the author of Upside Down (0-312-42031-5), the Memory of Fire trilogy (for which he won the 1989 American Book Award), Open Veins of Latin America, and many other works. He lives in Montevideo, Uruguay.