Century of the Wind

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Publication Year:
2014

ISBN-13: 9781480481428

<DIV><B>&ldquo;Nothing less than a unified history of the Western Hemisphere.&rdquo; &mdash;<I>The New Yorker</I></B><BR /><BR />From Guatemala to Rio de Janeiro, La Paz to New York City, Managua to Havana,&#160;<I>Century of the Wind</I>&#160;ties together the events and people&mdash;both large and small&mdash;that define the Americas. In hundreds of lyrical and vivid narratives, the final installment of Galeano&rsquo;s indispensible trilogy sees the building of the Panama Canal, the disenfranchisement of indigenous peoples living over Colombia&rsquo;s oil fields, the creation of Superman and the heyday of Faulkner, and coups and upheavals that cleaved an already fragmented continent. Galeano&rsquo;s elegy moves year by year through the century of Castro, Picasso, and Reagan, blending the many voices and varying locales of North and South America and forming a history that is stunning in its scope and savage beauty.</DIV>