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"I don't know where I was born, / nor who I am. I don't know where I come from, nor where I am going. I am a branch of a fallen tree, but I do not know the place where it fell. Where are my roots? Whose tree's branch am I?" With this folk song from Colombia begins the second part of "Memory of Fire," the epic trilogy by Eduardo Galeano, who embarks on a journey through history with the aim of "contributing to the rescue of the looted memory of all America, but mainly of Latin America, the beloved and scorned land."
Through more than four hundred narratives developed chronologically, "The Faces and the Masks" surveys the 18th and 19th centuries, a painful yet fertile era in which the peoples of the American continent seek their true identity, behind the masks imposed on them by colonizers, ultimately to achieve their self-determination and rights.
In these two centuries, through successive wars and revolutions, the colonies gain their independence. Before the reader's eyes parade revolutionaries, reformers, dictators, poets and painters, slaves and masters, gauchos, mestizos. Indigenous people and Europeans, visionary traitors, ordinary people who stood up and others who submitted.
It is the time when Europeans extract the mineral wealth of Latin America, and when the United States, now independent, clear out the Indians from their lands and manifest their expansionism. And Galeano's distinctive writing reconstructs history, making it speak in the first person, "digging it up from beneath the bronze statues and marble monuments."
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- Author
- Eduardo Galeano
- Publisher
- Papyros Ekdotikos Organismos
- Skroutz Book Awards 2025
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- Type
- Academic History
- Theme
- History of America
- Language
- Greek
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 455
- Release Date
- 10/2011
- Publication Date
- 2011
- Dimensions
- 14x21 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9789604860494
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