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Century of the Wind: Memory of Fire, Volume 3, 3 - (Memory of Fire Trilogy) by Eduardo Galeano (Paperback)

Century of the Wind: Memory of Fire, Volume 3, 3 - (Memory of Fire Trilogy) by  Eduardo Galeano (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>The third volume of Eduardo Galeano's <i>Memory of Fire</i> trilogy, <i>Century of the Wind</i> offers a panorama of Galeano's singular vision of the past, turbulent century: from the bucolic New Jersey laboratory of Thomas Alva Edison to the armies of Emiliano Zapata and Fidel Castro to the Reagan-era CIA neutralizations in the forests of Latin America. Dizzying, enraging, and beautifully written, <i>Century of the Wind</i> is a sweeping interpretation of the Americas no work of history has previously imagined.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Eduardo Galeano</b> (1940-2015) was one of Latin America's most distinguished writers. A Uruguayan journalist, writer, and novelist, he was considered, among other things, a literary giant of the Latin American left and global soccer's preeminent man of letters. He is the author of the three-volume Memory of Fire, <i>Open Veins of Latin America, Soccer in Sun and Shadow, The Book of Embraces, Walking Words, Upside Down</i>, and <i>Voices in Time</i>. Born in Montevideo in 1940, he lived in exile in Argentina and Spain for years before returning to Uruguay. <p/> His work has been translated into twenty-eight languages. He is the recipient of many international prizes, including the first Lannan Prize for Cultural Freedom, the Casa de las Americas Prize, and the First Distinguished Citizen of the region by the countries of Mercosur. Galeano once described himself as a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past of America and above all that of Latin America, intimate land condemned to amnesia. Isabel Allende, who said her copy of Galeano's book was one of the few items with which she fled Chile in 1973 after the military coup of Augusto Pinochet, called <i>Open Veins of Latin America</i> a mixture of meticulous detail, political conviction, poetic flair, and good storytelling.

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