The Book of Embraces (Paper) (Norton Paperback)

by Cedric Belfrage (Author), Cedric Belfrage (Author), Eduardo Galeano (Author)

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1993
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Eduardo Galeano's is considered a passionate literary voice. In The Book of Embraces , he employs parable and paradox, anecdote and dream, and fragments of autobiography to construct a passionate, ironic and joyful world view. The world reveals itself in a multiplicity of voices; what emerges is a brief for love, friendship, courage, perseverance and imagination. Galeano also wrote Memory of Fire .

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Eduardo Galeano's is considered a passionate literary voice. In The Book of Embraces , he employs parable and paradox, anecdote and dream, and fragments of autobiography to construct a passionate, ironic and joyful world view. The world reveals itself in a multiplicity of voices; what emerges is a brief for love, friendship, courage, perseverance and imagination. Galeano also wrote Memory of Fire .

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
Edition: Revised ed.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 13 Jan 1993
ISBN 10: 0393308553
ISBN 13: 9780393308556

Media Reviews

[Galeano] is a dangerous radical storyteller, like Gabriel Garcia Marquez, like Isabel Allende, and like Pablo Neruda before them. . . . The Book of Embraces is a mosaic, or Deigo Rivera mural in words. -- John Leonard - New York Newsday
In The Book of Embraces, Galeano goes out on the tightrope and then levitates in the air above it. . . . [His] subject is nothing less that the variety of human life and love. -- Alan Ryan - Washington Post Book World

Author Bio

Eduardo Galeano (1940-2015) was the author of Open Veins of Latin America, Days and Nights of Love and War, The Book of Embraces, We Say No, and other works. Cedric Belfrage was an author, journalist, translator, and co-founder of the radical weekly newspaper the National Guardian. English by birth, he was deported by the U.S. government back to England in 1955, and later became the translator for the Uruguayan author Eduardo Galeano.