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Title: Book of Embraces by Eduardo Galeano ISBN: 0-393-30855-3 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 01 April, 1992 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.67 (6 reviews)
Rating: 1
Summary: Book of Embraces
Comment: This book was required for my daughter's high school English class. It made little sense to us. The thoughts may be beautiful, as described by others, but they were disconnected and incoherent. I wondered if the writer had some form of mental illness or something was lost in translation.
Rating: 1
Summary: What the heck?
Comment: WHile Galeano had some great ideas, he did nothing to link these which made it seem too random to truly enjoy.
Rating: 5
Summary: Full of magic, humor, and passion
Comment: "The Book of Embraces" is a marvelous text by Uruguayan author Eduardo Galeano. The book has been translated into English by Cedric Belfrage, with Mark Schafer. This book is one of those texts that transcends genre. It consists of more than 150 short texts (most less than a page long) interspersed with Galeano's quirky, collage-like illustrations.
These short texts seem at times like essays, short stories, prose poems, or autobiographical fragments. By blending them together with his frequently whimsical graphics, Galeano creates his own unique form of literature.
Galeano writes about many topics. His short pieces take us all over Latin America--to Uruguay, Argentina, Venezuela, Cuba, Ecuador, and other countries--as well as to other parts of the world. He frequently reflects on life under dictatorships and mindless bureaucracies. And other Latin American writers frequently pop up: Claribel Alegria, Julio Cortazar, Mario Benedetti, and others.
Some of these short pieces are playfully humorous, others scathingly satirical, others gently compassionate, others hauntingly metaphysical. But throughout Galeano seems to maintain his faith in the human spirit: "When it is genuine, when it is born of the need to speak, no one can stop the human voice" (from "Celebration of the Human Voice 2"). "The Book of Embraces" is a book that you may want to embrace.
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Title: Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World by Eduardo Galeano, Mark Fried, Jose Guadalupe Posada ISBN: 0312420315 Publisher: Picador USA Pub. Date: 01 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Century of the Wind by Eduardo Galeano ISBN: 0393318079 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 01 June, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent by Eduardo H. Galeano, Cedric Belfrage ISBN: 0853459916 Publisher: Monthly Review Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1998 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Genesis by Eduardo Galeano ISBN: 0393317730 Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: 01 June, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Days and Nights of Love and War by Eduardo Galeano ISBN: 1583670238 Publisher: New York University Press Pub. Date: December, 2000 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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