Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone pdf

Born in Montevideo (Uruguay) in 1940. Galeano lived for many years in exile for political reasons, in Argentina and Spain. He is a researcher, novelist and journalist, and his book "The Open Arteries of Latin America" has been translated into more than twenty languages. Among his most famous works: - Open arteries of Latin America. Fire memory. The book of hugs. The mouths of time. Eduardo Galeano supports the anti-globalization movements with his intellectual presence and participation in international magazines and newspapers such as Le Monde Diplomatique.

Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone pdf by Eduardo Galeano

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 blinds.