Galeano's new book is his richest and most poetic yet, a joyous calendar of the sacred and the damned, a book of inspiration for those fighting tyranny, greed, and amnesia. Unfurling like a medieval book of days, each page of Galeano's new work has an illuminating story that takes inspiration from that day of the calendar year. Each entry resurrects the heroes and heroines who have fallen off the historical map. Among many others, you will discover the Brazilians who held a "smooch in" to protest a dictatorship that banned kisses, the "sacrilegious" women who had the effrontery to marry each other in a church in 1901, and Abdul Kassem Ismael, the grand vizier of Persia, who kept books safe from war by creating a walking library, 117,000 books aboard four hundred camels, forming a mile-long caravan. Beautifully translated by Galeano's longtime collaborator, Mark Fried, Children of the Days is a great humanist treasure that shows us how to live and how to remember. It awakens the best in us

20.04.2009 Книга, подаренная лидером Венесуэлы Уго Чавесом президенту США Бараку Обаме, стала бестселлером, сообщает AFP. Чавес преподнес Обаме книгу уругвайского писателя Эдуардо Галеано "Вскрытые вены Латинской Америки" (Las Venas Abiertas de America Latina) 18 апреля на саммите стран Америки, проходившем в Тринидаде и Тобаго. Уже 19 апреля, книга Галеано, переведенная на английский язык, поднялась в списке лидеров продаж интернет-магазина Amazon.com с 734-го на 2-е место. "Открытые вены Латинской Америки" на языке оригинала продемонстрировали еще более впечатляющий рост популярности, переместившись в течение суток с 47468-го месте на 283-е. Книга известного публициста Эдуардо Галеано, рассказывающая об истории разграбления Латинской Америки от конкистадоров до глобальных корпораций, впервые вышла в свет в 1971 году. На русском языке произведение Галеано было опубликовано в 1986 году. На книге Галеано, преподнесенной Чавесом Обаме, президент Венесуэлы оставил дарственную надпись: "Обаме, с любовью" (For Obama, with affection). Президент США назвал подарок Чавеса "приятным жестом". На саммите стран Америки Чавес также пообещал восстановить дипломатические отношения между Венесуэлой и США, прерванные в сентябре 2008 года по инициативе Каракаса. На пост посла Венесуэлы в США Чавес предложил кандидатуру Роя Чэйдертона – представителя Венесуэлы в Организации американских государств. Госсекретарь США Хиллари Клинтон поддержала идею восстановления двусторонних дипломатических отношений, однако пока не сообщила, кто займет пост посла США в Венесуэле. *** Escrita en 1970, y revisada en 1978, `Las Venas…` no ha perdido la más mínima actualidad. Se trata de un libro de Historia Contemporánea, en el que se relata el devenir del subcontinente latinoamericano, desde su conquista por los europeos, hasta la actualidad. Y no es una historia fáctica, es decir, de hechos y batallitas. Todo lo contrario, es la historia del expolio, la injusticia y la destrucción y sometimiento que este continente ha sufrido desde el siglo XVI hasta el XX a manos de los `civilizadores` occidentales. La atención principal se dedica a los hechos económicos, y se estudia desde el comercio del oro y el azúcar de los primeros tiempos de la conquista, hasta las modernas formas de despojo de las materias primas como café, petróleo, cacao, etc. Ello haciendo un brillante estudio de cómo actualmente las economías de los países emancipados pertenecen del todo (y no ha podido ser de otra manera) a sus antiguos colonizadores. Por supuesto se estudian concienzudamente las causas y el desarrollo histórico de estos hechos (el libro cuenta con un amplio índice analítico). Y si a todo ello sumamos que está escrito con un estilo made in Galeano, rápido, directo, agudo, sin artificios, lleno de ejemplos ilustrativos, podremos concluir que estamos ante una obra maestra, que se lee con vivo interés y sin caer en el menor sopor o aburrimiento

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 Núñez 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

This new edition of Eduardo Galeano's riveting commentary on the history and politics of soccer includes newly written material on the 2002 World Cup, which one quarter of humanity watched. Discussing everything from the leveling of the Twin Towers to the death of the sole survivor of that extraordinary match between British and German soldiers in 1915, one of South America's greatest commentators issues forth on robotic soccer in Japan, the mass-production of the game as a sign of the decline of civilization, the amazing success of Senegal and Turkey, and how Nike beat Adidas

For the first time, you can own all three books of Memory of Fire in a single volume. Eduardo Galeano’s Memory of Fire Trilogy defies categorization — or perhaps creates its own. It is a passionate, razor-sharp, lyrical history of North and South America, from the birth of the continent’s indigenous peoples through the end of the twentieth century. The three volumes form a haunting and dizzying whole that resurrects the lives of Indians, conquistadors, slaves, revolutionaries, poets, and more. The first book, Genesis, pays homage to the many origin stories of the tribes of the Americas, and paints a verdant portrait of life in the New World through the age of the conquistadors. The second book, Faces and Masks, spans the two centuries between the years 1700 and 1900, in which colonial powers plundered their newfound territories, ultimately giving way to a rising tide of dictators. And in the final installment, Century of the Wind, Galeano brings his story into the twentieth century, in which a fractured continent enters the modern age as popular revolts blaze from North to South. This celebrated series is a landmark of contemporary Latin American writing, and a brilliant document of culture

In a series of mock lesson plans and a "program of study" Galeano provides an eloquent, passionate, funny and shocking exposé of First World privileges and assumptions. From a master class in "The Impunity of Power" to a seminar on "The Sacred Car" — with tips along the way on "How to Resist Useless Vices" and a declaration of the "The Right to Rave" — he surveys a world unevenly divided between abundance and deprivation, carnival and torture, power and helplessness. We have accepted a "reality" we should reject, he writes, one where poverty kills, people are hungry, machines are more precious than humans, and children work from dark to dark. In the North, we are fed on a diet of artificial need and all made the same by things we own; the South is the galley slave enabling our greed

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