About this title: From pre-Columbian creation myths and the first European voyages of discovery and conquest to modern times, Galeano's "Memory of Fire" trilogy offers an outstanding Latin-American eye view of the makings of the New World, presenting "nothing less than a unified history of the Western Hemisphere . . . recounted in vivid prose" ("The New Yorker").
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780393317732ISBN:0393317730
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Edition: Later printing
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: W.W. Norton, New York
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780393317732ISBN:0393317730
Description: NEW. Memory of Fire Volume 1. 306pp. Octavo [21cm]. Paperback. NEW. From back cover: "Genesis, the first volume in Eduardo Galeano's Memory of Fire, is both a meditation on the clashes between the Old World and the New and, in the author's words, an attempt to 'rescue the kidnapped memory of all America. ' A fierce, impassioned, and kaleidoscopic historical experience that takes us from the creation myths of the Makiritare Indians of the Yucatan to Columbus's first, joyous moments in the New ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Pantheon, NY
Date Published: 1985
Description: First US edition of the first volume of Memory of Fire, in the words of Ariel Dorfman "an epic book that will destroy your preconceptions. " Fine in price-clipped dust jacket. Signed by Galeano. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: W W NORTON & CO INC
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780393317732ISBN:0393317730
Description: From pre-Columbian creation myths and the first European voyages of discovery and conquest to modern times, Galeano's "Memory of Fire" trilogy offers an outstanding Latin-American eye view of the makings of the New World, presenting "nothing less tha... read more
"The first of the `Memory of Fire' trilogy, which taken together make up Galeano's modern history of Latin America - a mosaic of historical moments carefully put together, well researched and quite moving. About as good as history gets. Taken in its entirety the series is a never ending - mostly painful journey of Latin America's struggle to define its own future. The political critique is quite accurate and not overdone. Very painful stuff. This first volume starts with native legends - fantastic, humane - every bit as rich as Greek mythology, from which Latin America can never completely disassociate itself (despite trying). It goes on to cover the period of the conquistadores - those bold thugs, sadists doing God's work. Much of this section has been covered by others; still the way that Galeano puts it all together is quite remarkable.
Worst part of reading it was, after reading the first volume I was doomed - propelled to read volumes 2 and 3, neither of which disappoints."
"The extraordinary first volume of a great and ambitious project, a kind of historical fiction that resists categorization. In a voice stirring in its originality, Eduardo Galeano re-creates the turbulent saga of the conquest of the Americas, and above all Latin America."
"A llama wished to have golden hair, brilliant as the sun, strong as love and soft as the mist that the dawn dissolves, to weave a braid on which to mark, knot by knot, the moons that pass, the flowers that die.
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