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Faces and Masks (Memory of Fire Book 2) Kindle Edition

by Eduardo Galeano (Author) Format: Kindle Edition

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Book 2 of 3: Memory of Fire

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“A book as fascinating as the history it relates . . . Galeano is a satirist, realist, and historian.” —Los Angeles Times

For centuries, Europe’s imperial powers brutally exploited the peoples and resources of the New World. While soldiers of fortune marched across continents in search of El Dorado, white settlers established plantations and trading posts along the coasts, altering the land and bringing disease and slavery with them. In the midst of a bloody collision of civilizations, the West has birthed new societies out of the old.

In the second book of his Memory of Fire trilogy, Eduardo Galeano forges a new understanding of the Americas, history retold from a diverse collection of viewpoints. Spanning the end of empire and the age of revolutions, Faces and Masks brilliantly collects the strands of the past into an iridescent work of literature.

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"Memory of Fire is devastating, triumphant... sure to scorch the sensibility of English-language readers."
― New York Times

"[Memory of Fire] will reveal to you the meaning of the New World as it was, and of the world as we have it now."
― Boston Globe

"A book as fascinating as the history it relates.... Galeano is a satirist, realist, and historian, and... deserves mention alongside John Dos Passos, Bernard DeVoto, and Gabriel Garcia Marquez."
― Los Angeles Times

"An epic work of literary creation... there could be no greater vindication of the wonders of the lands and people of Latin America than Memory of Fire."
― Washington Post

About the Author

Eduardo Galeanos works, which have been translated into twenty-eight languages, include Memory of Fire (three volumes); Open Veins of Latin America; Soccer in Sun and Shadow; Days and Nights of Love and War; The Books of Embraces; Upside Down; and Mirrors. Born in Montevideo, he lived in exile in Argentina and Spain for years before returning to Uruguay. He was the recipient of the first Lannan Prize for Cultural Freedom.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00JK559KC
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Open Road Media; Reprint edition (April 29, 2014)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ April 29, 2014
Language ‏ : ‎ English
File size ‏ : ‎ 4841 KB
Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 318 pages

Best Sellers Rank: #146,228 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #20 in History of Central America
- #53 in Folklore & Mythology
- #277 in Folklore & Mythology Studies

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Eduardo Hughes Galeano (Spanish pronunciation: [eˈðwarðo ɣaleˈano]; 3 September 1940 – 13 April 2015) was a Uruguayan journalist, writer and novelist considered, among other things, "global soccer's pre-eminent man of letters" and "a literary giant of the Latin American left".

Galeano's best-known works are Las venas abiertas de América Latina (Open Veins of Latin America, 1971) and Memoria del fuego (Memory of Fire Trilogy, 1982–6). "I'm a writer," the author once said of himself, ""obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past of America and above all that of Latin America, intimate land condemned to amnesia."

Author Isabelle Allende, who said her copy of Galeano's book was one of the few items with which she fled Chile in 1973 after the military coup of Augusto Pinochet, called Open Veins of Latin America, "a mixture of meticulous detail, political conviction, poetic flair, and good storytelling."

Bio from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Photo by Donostia Kultura [CC BY-SA 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons.

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joe

Thought provoking

Reviewed in the United States on October 28, 2010

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This well documented 2nd volume of history of Latin America (I have read Part 1)picks up where the first story ends. Powerful and compelling. Each short section fits together with the whole to tell the story of contact in precise detail. I was not aware of the long-term, never ending stuggle by the underclass which continues to today. (Currently reading part 3). Highly recommend for anyone interested in Latin America.

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Trinity B

College course requirement

Reviewed in the United States on May 17, 2021

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Reviewed in the United States on May 15, 2012

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This book provides such a wonderful glimpse into Latin American life. I loved learning about the history of Latin America through the ancient accounts from the Mayans and Aztecs of creation stories to stories about conquest. This book is a great companion to a regular history book about Latin America and its European conquest.

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WTN Dave

One of the most important works of history in the ...

Reviewed in the United States on September 11, 2017

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One of the most important works of history in the last 50 years. An absolutely unique way of telling history, a way that humbles the reader.

Reviewed in the United States on July 14, 2020

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I must have enjoyed it - but at my age, I can't remember reading it!

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Aykut Durgun

Sour stories of Western world from the best story teller

Reviewed in the United States on February 14, 2013

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Eduardo Galeano has been telling the real stories of the western world for a long time to wake Latin world up. Memory of Fire trilogy is one of the best eye opener book, I ever read

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emmathers

Faces and Masks

Reviewed in the United States on May 7, 2014

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It's worth a read. The entire trilogy. Expand your boundaries and histories. It's a fantastic anthology of stories Galeano artfully edits and makes his own.

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Boots Ellroy

Vol. 2 of Memories of Fire

Reviewed in the United States on January 7, 2014

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Part of a trilogy see the review of the last volume, "Century of Wind". This is an amazing work and a place to discover new territory.