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Espejos: Una historia casi universal (Spanish Edition)

Espejos: Una historia casi universal (Spanish Edition)
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Publisher: Siglo XXI
Written By: Eduardo Galeano
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 909
EAN: 9788432313141
ISBN: 8432313149
Label: Siglo XXI
Manufacturer: Siglo XXI
Number Of Pages: 372
Publication Date: 2009-05-26
Publisher: Siglo XXI
Studio: Siglo XXI
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Editorial Review:
Eduardo Galeano is one of our greatest storytellers. Throughout his career he has transcended genre and turned our understanding of history and reality on its head. Mirrors is his latest book of wonders, his most ambitious project since Memory of Fire—that landmark recreation of 500 years in the Americas. Mirrors is a sometimes bawdy, sometimes irreverent, sometimes heart-breaking unofficial history of the world seen—and mirrored to us—through the eyes and voices of history's unseen, unheard, and forgotten. As Galeano asks, "Official history has it that Vasco Núñez de Balboa was the first man to see, from a summit in Panama, the two oceans at once. Were the people who lived there blind?".Taking in 5,000 years of history, recalling the lives of artists and writers, gods and visionaries from the Garden of Eden to twenty-first-century New York and Mumbai, and told in hundreds of kaleidoscopic vignettes that resurrect the lives of the "thinkers and the feelers, the curious, condemned for asking, rebels and losers and lovely lunatics who were and are the salt of the earth," Mirrors is a magic mosaic of our humanity.
Reader Reviews for Espejos: Una historia casi universal (Spanish Edition):
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Summary: Non sense
Comment: I don't understand the good reviews about "Espejos...". How can anyone like so much non sense? I really regret spending my money on buying this book.
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Summary: Un viaje fantástico por la historia
Comment: Un libro para meditar y para compartir con amigos.
Lo recomiendo a quien quiera aprender de la historia en una forma entretenida e inteligente.
Debe formar parte de la biblioteca de cualquiera.
Espero lo disfruten tanto como yo.
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Summary: Great!
Comment: Hey this book is great.
Speially the delivery was great and fast.
I recomend this book
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Summary: Espejos-Mirrors
Comment: I started reading Espejos in English and knew that I had to get it in the original Spanish. For Galeano no person or event is "sacred". Reading his vignettes puts the phrase "History is written by the winners" into a proper perspective. Because the stories are short and concise it is easy to stop and restart reading at any page in the book. His general thread of questioning authority would make the book a good starting point for discussion groups involved in social issues. Galeano was interviewed on C-Span's book reviews and was very happy with the English translation. I bought both the Spanish and English versions for my granddaughter who is a sopomore in high school.
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Summary: Chuck full of facts
Comment: Galeano never disappoints. As soon as I got this book and started to read it, I could not put it down. His is a very well written historical account from a liberal's perspective. Galeano has chuck full of historical facts that I'm sure took a lot of research. I only wish that he had included a bibliography. I'd love to share these facts with some of my badly informed friends, who get their news from the mainstream media and their history from Hollywood (well not exactly, but you get the idea, let's conquer the West type of movies) a different perspective. I recommend this book whole heartedly.
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