For modern people to realize the diversity and possibilities of their world, they must regain collective memory; today is a mirror of yesterday, and to grasp it in its entirety, one must shake off the stereotypes and univocal interpretations of the past. This is the key to the thought and writing of Eduardo Galeano.

The saying goes that history is written by the victors, but Galeano has set as a programmatic goal of his writing career to document the history that was not recorded by the defeated, the obscure, the weak, the "minorities," as well as those who dared over the centuries to stand up to all forms of power, to give voice to those who could not speak.

In "Mirrors," Galeano writes an "almost global history" that begins with the cosmogonic myths and the appearance of humans on earth and extends to the dawn of the 21st century. Through six hundred narratives-vignettes that unfold chronologically but also thematically, he speaks of humanity's struggle for life, for beauty, women and men, for war, poverty, social inequalities, and racism, for the expansionism and voracity of the West, for nature and its destruction, for football and the media.

With "Mirrors," Eduardo Galeano offers a work of history and political reflection that seeks to illuminate the other side of the world, to highlight the multiple facets of the historical experience of humanity that are obscured by the official, authoritative narratives of historical past.