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Days and Nights of Love and War

Eduardo Galeano

Paperback | Pages: 220 pages

Rating: 4.29 | 1167 Users | 104 Reviews

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Title	:	Days and Nights of Love and War
Author	:	Eduardo Galeano
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 220 pages
Published	:	October 1st 2000 by Monthly Review Press (first published 1978)
Categories	:	History. Nonfiction

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"Days and Nights succeeds not only because of its socio-political authenticity and lyrical style but because of its interweaving of anger and tenderness, elation and sorrow."
--The Nation

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 Am�ricas prize in 1978.

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Original Title:	Días y noches de amor y de guerra
ISBN:	1583670238 (ISBN13: 9781583670231)
Edition Language:	English

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Ratings: 4.29 From 1167 Users | 104 Reviews

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So this is what it was like to live in the southern cone during its dirty little war against the young. At first the fragmented, sparse, understated narrative voice reminded me of Henri Michaux and Jean Rhys. Later, I realized that the narrator is numb most of the time, due to the war waged against love, against the poor, against joy, by the machine, which is power, and which represents a major player in Latin American history. This book was first published in translation in 1983 and describes

Eduardo Galeano has this idiosyncratic way of presenting history as if it was a story, a tell-tale. This is a book of part non-fiction, part-poetry and also has short stories. It is just nourishment for a thirsty soul. He sometimes gives his thoughts and exasperation of his exile which is very rare because Eduardo never involves his personal life in his writing. It is just a book that you will want to re-read lest in case you forget some of it.

I should like refined literature better. And indeed, Eduardo Galeano is a very good writer....but I hated it. The only reason I read this was for school (AKA not of my own free will)

this is my absolute favorite book ever in the whole world!

a 5 for the audacity in existing and daring, for making no apologies, for keeping it real and still finding pearls of wisdom and joy through it all.and for the profound reminder that writing and reading are still considered revolutionary acts in so many other parts of the world.

my favorite book. of all time.

Winner of the 1978 Casa de las Americas prize, this episodic book moves between reportage, fiction, diary, interview and travelogue to tell the story of a Latin America ravaged by exploitation and dictatorships. Despite having read Galeano's monumental 'Open Veins of Latin America', my knowledge of the history of this part of the world is still sketchy, so many of his references were unfortunately lost on me. But the power of his writing to evoke a true moment, an intense feeling, or collective