This celebrated series is a landmark of contemporary Latin American writing, and a brilliant document of culture. And in the final installment, Century of the Wind, Galeano brings his story into the twentieth century, in which a fractured continent enters the modern age as popular revolts blaze from North to South. The second book, Faces and Masks, spans the two centuries between the years 17, in which colonial powers plundered their newfound territories, ultimately giving way to a rising tide of dictators.
The first book, Genesis, pays homage to the many origin stories of the tribes of the Americas, and paints a verdant portrait of life in the New World through the age of the conquistadors. Volume 1 (Memory of Fire Trilogy) Galeano, Eduardo on.
The three volumes form a haunting and dizzying whole that resurrects the lives of Indians, conquistadors, slaves, revolutionaries, poets, and more. Genesis: Memory of Fire by Eduardo Galeano This book tells the history of the. It is a passionate, razor-sharp, lyrical history of North and South America, from the birth of the continent’s indigenous peoples through the end of the twentieth century. All three books in the American Book Award–winning Memory of Fire Trilogy available in a single volume for the first time.Įduardo Galeano’s Memory of Fire Trilogy defies categorization-or perhaps creates its own.
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