About the Author: Eduardo Galeano
Eduardo Galeano was a Uruguayan journalist, writer and novelist. His best known works are Memoria del fuego (Memory of Fire Trilogy, 1986) and Las venas abiertas de América Latina (Open Veins of Latin America, 1971) which have been translated into twenty languages and transcend orthodox genres: combining fiction, journalism, political analysis, and history.
The author himself has proclaimed his obsession as a writer saying, "I'm a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past of America above all and above all that of Latin America, intimate land condemned to amnesia."
He has received the International Human Rights Award by Global Exchange (2006) and the Stig Dagerman Prize (2010).
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Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent by Eduardo Galeano
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Paperback, Published in Jun 2009 by Serpent's Tail
ISBN10: 184668742X | ISBN13: 9781846687426
Page count: 317
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"A superbly written, excellently translated, and powerfully persuasive exposé which all students of Latin American and U.S. history must read."
--Choice
"Well written and passionately stated, this is an intellectually honest and valuable study."
--Library Journal
"A dazzling barrage of words and ideas."
--History
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