Galeano's surreal drawings complement the text, blending wild imagination, pointed satire and old-fashioned charm.
(shelved 4 times as galeano) avg rating 4.38 3,935 ratings published 2008. Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone (Hardcover) by. 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars. Bankruptcies are socialized while profits are privatized.'' Lovers, executioners, fabulous animals, slavish bureaucrats and the numberless poor inhabit his dreamlike parables and mini-stories (many a single page or shorter), which hop from Amsterdam to Hollywood. avg rating 4.34 2,184 ratings published 1982. His targets range from or more vivid:`He skewers.'? aa/leave as is.g political repression in Chile, Guatemala and Marxist Cuba to whites' persecution of Native Americans to the inequities of any system in which ``voters vote but don't elect. do you mean `cultural character' `lack of individuality'aa? /works without.gs of our time. His sociopolitical commentaries expose the shallow selfishness and callousness vague. redundant and you later make clear that these are short pieces.aa He writes of his years in exile during Uruguay's military dictatorship in the 1970s, of his heart attack and of his wife's loss of a child halfway to term. RemovedNEL Tts_version v1.In an enchanting book of wonders, Uruguayan writer Galeano applies the collage-like technique of Memory of Fire, his fictive historical trilogy of the Americas, to his own life and the contemporary scene.
Urn:oclc:34269343 Republisher_date 20171116093349 Republisher_operator Republisher_time 438 Scandate 20171115094419 Scanner Scanningcenter hongkong Source Urn:lcp:bookofembraces00gale:epub:55d3f4be-883f-400b-aed9-c99e29d5348f Extramarc University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (PZ) Foldoutcount 0 Identifier bookofembraces00gale Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t0ns4rc05 Invoice 1213 Isbn 9780393029604Ġ393029603 Lccn 90021337 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 11.0 (Extended OCR) Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.16 Openlibrary OL1863526M Openlibrary_edition His musings are as much about love and loss as they are about justice and the chasm of history.
Urn:lcp:bookofembraces00gale:lcpdf:5f4511c3-7e14-4549-9949-00773a90c364 'The Book of Embraces' has a vast and visionary scope but also an intensely intimate one. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 21:09:03 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA1160608 City New York Donorįriendsofthesanfranciscopubliclibrary Edition 1st ed.
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