The Memory of Fire Trilogy

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Publication Year:
2014

ISBN-13: 9781480481435

<DIV><B>Now in one collection, the century-spanning trilogy filled with &ldquo;the wonders of the lands and people of Latin America&rdquo; (<I>The Washington Post</I>).</B><BR /><BR /> Eduardo Galeano&rsquo;s&#160;<I>Memory of Fire Trilogy</I>&#160;defies categorization&mdash;or perhaps creates its own. It is a passionate, razor-sharp, lyrical history of North and South America, from the birth of the continent&rsquo;s indigenous peoples through the end of the twentieth century. The three volumes form a haunting and dizzying whole that resurrects the lives of Indians, conquistadors, slaves, revolutionaries, poets, and more.<BR /><BR /> The first book,&#160;<I>Genesis</I>, pays homage to the many origin stories of the tribes of the Americas, and paints a verdant portrait of life in the New World through the age of the conquistadors. The second book,&#160;<I>Faces and Masks</I>, spans the two centuries between the years 1700 and 1900, in which colonial powers plundered their newfound territories, ultimately giving way to a rising tide of dictators. And in the final installment,&#160;<I>Century of the Wind</I>, Galeano brings his story into the twentieth century, in which a fractured continent enters the modern age as popular revolts blaze from North to South.<BR /><BR /> This celebrated series is a landmark of contemporary Latin American writing, and a brilliant document of culture.&#160;</DIV>