In this kaleidoscope of reflections, renowned South American author Eduardo Galeano ranges widely, from childhood to love, music, plants, fear, indignity, and indignation. In the signal style of his bestselling Memory of Fire trilogy--brief fragments that build steadily into an organic whole--Galeano offers a rich, wry history that is both calmly philosophical and fiercely political.

From one of the world's most celebrated writers, his most ambitious book to date-an epic history of the human adventure, told backwards, forwards, sideways, through past, present, and future

In dieser Welt gibt es keinen Reichtum, der unschuldig ist. Das grandios unorthodoxe Geschichtswerk Eduardo Galeanos - nach 36 Jahren in neuer bersetzung!

Unfurling like a medieval book of days, each page of Eduardo Galeano's Children of the Days has an illuminating story that takes inspiration from that date of the calendar year, resurrecting the heroes and heroines who have fallen off the historical map, but whose lives remind us of our darkest hours and sweetest victories.
Challenging readers to consider the human condition and our own choices, Galeano elevates the little-known heroes of our world and decries the destruction of the intellectual, linguistic, and emotional treasures that we have all but forgotten.
Readers will...