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9%OFFEduardo Galeano - The Book of Embraces - 9780393308556 - V9780393308556
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The Book of Embraces

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Description for The Book of Embraces Paperback. Parable, paradox, anecdote, dream, and autobiography blend into an exuberant world view and affirmation of human possibility. Translator(s): Belfrage, Cedric. Num Pages: 288 pages, Ill. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 242.
Eduardo Galeano's is considered a passionate literary voice. In "The Book of Embraces", he employs parable and paradox, anecdote and dream, and fragments of autobiography to construct a passionate, ironic and joyful world view. The world reveals itself in a multiplicity of voices; what emerges is a brief for love, friendship, courage, perseverance and imagination. Galeano also wrote "Memory of Fire".

Product Details

Publisher
WW Norton & Co
Number of pages
282
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1993
Condition
New
Weight
231g
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780393308556
SKU
V9780393308556
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About Eduardo Galeano
Eduardo Galeano (1940—2015) was the author of Open Veins of Latin America, Days and Nights of Love and War, The Book of Embraces, We Say No, and other works. Cedric Belfrage was an author, journalist, translator, and co-founder of the radical weekly newspaper the National Guardian. English by birth, he was deported by the U.S. government back to England in ... Read more

Reviews for The Book of Embraces
"[Galeano] is a dangerous radical storyteller, like Gabriel Garcia Marquez, like Isabel Allende, and like Pablo Neruda before them. . . . The Book of Embraces is a mosaic, or Deigo Rivera mural in words."
John Leonard - New York Newsday "In The Book of Embraces, Galeano goes out on the tightrope and then levitates in the air above ... Read more

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