Days and nights of love and war / Eduardo Galeano ; translated by Judith Brister ; including "In defense of the word" / translated by Bobbye S. Ortiz ; foreword by Sandra Cisneros.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Galeano, Eduardo, 1940-2015.

Standardized Title:

Días y noches de amor y de guerra. English

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Galeano, Eduardo, 1940-2015--Political and social views.

Galeano, Eduardo, 1940-2015.

Political and social views.

Latin America--Politics and government--1948-1980.

Latin America.

Politics and government.

Authors, Uruguayan--20th century--Biography.

Authors, Uruguayan.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

178 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Monthly Review Press, 2000.

Summary:

Days and Nights of Love and War is the personal testimony of one of Latin America's foremost contemporary political writers. In this fascinating journal and eloquent history, Eduardo Galeano movingly records the lives of struggles of the Latin American people, under two decades of unimaginable violence and extreme repression. Alternating between reportage, personal vignettes, interviews, travelogues, and folklore, and richly conveyed with anger, sadness, irony, and occasional humor. Galeano pays loving tribute to the courage and determination of those who continued to believe in, and fight for, a more human existence. The Lannan Foundation awarded the 1999 Cultural Prize for Freedom to Eduardo Galeano, in recognition of those "whose extraordinary and courageous work celebrates the human right to freedom of imagination, inquiry and expression."

Originally published in Cuba, Days and Nights of Love and War won the Casa de las Americas prize in 1978.

Contents:

Days and Nights of Love and War 17

In Defense of the Word 167.

ISBN:

158367022X

1583670238

OCLC:

43971429