"The factual skeleton of the author's life is given flesh and blood in his strangely beautiful book, in which poetry, fiction, autobiography, history, fantasy and political commentary mingle and reinforce each other in unexpected...

"Una bomba literaria que muy probablemente Obama no ha leído, pero que -seamos justos- en efecto tendría que leer...Imaginemos la escena: acomodado en su asiento del Air Force One rumbo a Washington, Obama toma el libro que le obsequió...

In this witty and rebellious history of world soccer, award-winning writer Eduardo Galeano searches for the styles of play, players, and goals that express the unique personality of certain times and places. In Soccer in Sun and Shadow ,...

Die offenen Adern Lateinamerikas von Galeano, Eduardo

"Genesis," the first volume in Eduardo Galeano's "Memory of Fire" trilogy, is both a meditation on the clashes between the Old World and the New and, in the author's words, an attempt to "rescue the kidnapped memory of all America." It...

Das Buch der Umarmungen

Das Buch "Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History" von Eduardo Galeano ist eine einzigartige Sammlung von Geschichten und Anekdoten aus der Menschheitsgeschichte. Jeder Tag des Jahres wird mit einer Geschichte oder einem...

Eduardo Galeano, dessen Werk "Die offenen Adern Lateinamerikas" auch 36 Jahre nach seinem Erscheinen zur Pflichtlektüre an den Universitäten ganz Lateinamerikas gehört, hat zum Beginn des 3. Jahrtausends eine schonungslose Bilanz der...

This unashamedly emotional history of football is a homage to the romance and drama, spectacle and passion of a 'great pagan mass'. Through stories of superstition, heartbreak, tragedy, luck, heroes and villains, those who lived for...

The Open Veins of Latin America von Galeano, Eduardo

One of the world's most celebrated writers delivers his most ambitious book to date--an epic history of the human adventure, told backwards, forwards, sideways, through past, present, and future. von Galeano, Eduardo