Eduardo Galeano

Since its U.S. debut a quarter-century ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America. It is also an outstanding political economy, a social and cultural narrative of the highest quality, and perhaps the finest description of primitive capital accumulation since Marx. Rather than chronology, geography, or political successions, Eduardo Galeano has organized the various facets of Latin American history according to the patterns of five centuries of exploitation. Thus he is concerned with gold and silver, cacao and cotton, rubber and coffee, fruit, hides and wool, petroleum, iron, nickel, manganese, copper, aluminum ore, nitrates, and tin. These are the veins which he traces through the body of the entire continent, up to the Rio Grande and throughout the Caribbean, and all the way to their open ends where they empty into the coffers of wealth in the United States and Europe. Weaving fact and imagery into a rich tapestry, Galeano fuses scientific analysis with the passions of a plundered and suffering people. An immense gathering of materials is framed with a vigorous style that never falters in its command of themes. All readers interested in great historical, economic, political, and social writing will find a singular analytical achievement, and an overwhelming narrative that makes history speak, unforgettably. This classic is now further honored by Isabel Allende's inspiring introduction. Universally recognized as one of the most important writers of our time, Allende once again contributes her talents to literature, to political principles, and to enlightenment.

Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent

Open Veins of Latin America

The unofficial history of the world seen--and mirrored to us--through the eyes and voices of history's unseen, unheard, and forgotten, over 5000 years of history.

Stories of Almost Everyone

Mirrors

Cover note: Revisd edition including commentary on the 2002 World Cup.

Soccer in Sun and Shadow

مرايا

كرة القدم بين الشمس والظل

Las Venas Abiertas de América Latina

صياد القصص

اسبر، اسامة

كتاب المعانقات

Eduardo Galeano nos entrega relatos y vivencias personales que a ratos son autobiográficos, en ocasiones filosóficos y políticos muchas veces. Combina prosa e imágenes en un esfuerzo artístico que se convierte en poético.

imágenes y palabras

El libro de los abrazos

أفواه الزمن

أبناء الأيام

Remontando a 1970, sua primeira edição, atualizada em 1977, quando a maioria dos países do continente padecia facinorosas ditaduras, este livro tornou-se um 'clássico libertário', um inventário da dependência e da vassalagem de que a América Latina tem sido vítima, desde que nela aportaram os europeus no final do século XV. No começo, espanhóis e portugueses. Depois vieram ingleses, holandeses, franceses, modernamente os norte-americanos, e o ancestral cenário permanece - a mesma submissão, a mesma miséria, a mesma espoliação.

As veias abertas da América Latina

"Days and Nights of Love and War is the personal testimony of one of Latin America's foremost contemporary writers. In this journal and history, Eduardo Galeano records the lives and struggles of the Latin American people, under two decades of violence and repression. Alternating between reportage and personal vignettes, Galeano pays tribute to the courage and determination of those who continued to believe in, and fight for, a more human existence."--BOOK JACKET.

Days and Nights of Love and War

'Los hijos de los días' reúne 366 historias, una para cada día del año. En ellas, Galeano busca captar instantáneas que reflejan la vida de hombres y mujeres célebres o anónimos. Hechos situados en diversas épocas y lugares, que muestran las fragilidades de personajes conocidos y la grandeza de los ignorados.

Los hijos de los días

Ve günler yürümeye başladı

Kadinlar

Part Two of the Trilogy : Memory of Fire

Faces and Masks

Mujeres/Women

Latin Amerikanin Kesik Damarlari

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.

Eduardo Galeano

About

Books

Join the club