“In the South-American jungle, as history opens, jaguars teach men to build fires and hunt with bows. Columbus wades ashore in the Bahamas, asking the natives (in Hebrew, Chaldean and Arabic) if they can lead him to the Great Khan. The Virgin Mary appears at Guadelupe, Mex., olive-skinned and speaking in Nahuatl. ‘I am not a historian,’ Eduardo Galeano explains of the scenes he sketches. ‘I am a writer who would like to contribute to the rescue of the kidnapped memory of all America, but above all of Latin America.’ Galeano is overly modest. He may not be a trained historian, but Memory of Fire: Genesis is a book as fascinating as the history it relates. Memory of Fire: Genesis is composed of 308 vignettes--scenes from the history of the Americas. ...”
2015 April: Eduardo Galeano (3 September 1940 – 13 April 2015), 2017 August: Soccer in Sun and Shadow (1993), 2018 August: The Pan American, 2019 April: Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent (1971)
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