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Title: Genesis (Memory of Fire Trilogy, Part 1) by Eduardo H. Galeano, Cedric Belfrage ISBN: 0-393-31773-0 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: June, 1998 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.3 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: History of the Americas told in a unique style
Comment: The author has drawn from many sources to compile this beautifully written history of the Americas, told in a couple of hundred short chapters, each a mini story of a legend or historical event presented in chronological order. Part one of the book, called "First Voices" recounts ancient legends and creation myths of the first peoples of the Americas, later comes contact with Europeans - the "discovery" years then conquest. Volume One of the trilogy takes the reader up to 1700 and recounts more stories from South America than the Caribbean or North America, though all parts of the Americas are touched.
Wish now I had read this more slowly, rather than reading this straight through like a novel, a few of these chapters a night would have been better, so many horrific stories of cruelty, oppression and genocide one after another were hard to absorb, overwhelming greed is really the theme. Such a waste of human knowledge and experience, the destruction of the ancient books of the Mayans by the Catholic church was a loss for all humanity.
Rating: 4
Summary: A history of the Americas to learn from
Comment: This is the poetic telling of the story of the colonization of the western hemisphere. In that it is focused on recreating that which was lost, it is a one sided retelling, but unlike another reviewer suggests, in this book, not all Europeans are demonized because of some politically correct guilt on the part of the author inspired by a trite view of the noble savage. Indeed, the actors in the vignettes related (men, women, Indians, Europeans, entire cultures, religions) are full of remarkable moral complexity and depth. Reading Genesis, one is left saddened at the tremendous loss, enriched by the sight of the magical colors Galeano pulls out of the air as he reconstructs lifestyles so thoroughly forgotten by modern culture, and finally embarassed by our darker human nature. In the end, it is the rapacious greed that destroyed so much that is indicted in this book. The writing is never heavy-handed despite the obvious ease with which one could attack the European practices; rather the author allows the stories of injustice to unfold and gives the reader the opportunity to understand how this has shaped the world we live in. This book is recommended reading for anyone who has forgotten what a great story history is.
Rating: 5
Summary: Amazing
Comment: An amazing combination of history, literature, and poetry.
I highly recommend this book to anyone.
Another good book by Galeano that conveys a lot of the
economic history of South American colonization in greater detail and can be read along with this trilogy is The Open Veins of Latin America.
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Title: Faces and Masks (Memory of Fire Trilogy, Part 2) by Eduardo H. Galeano, Cedric Belfrage ISBN: 0393318060 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: June, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Century of the Wind by Eduardo H. Galeano, Cedric Belfrage ISBN: 0393318079 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: June, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent by Eduardo H. Galeano, Cedric Belfrage ISBN: 0853459916 Publisher: Monthly Review Press Pub. Date: June, 1998 List Price(USD): $18.00 |
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Title: Upside Down : A Primer for the Looking-Glass World by Eduardo Galeano ISBN: 0312420315 Publisher: Picador USA Pub. Date: 05 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Book of Embraces by Eduardo Galeano ISBN: 0393308553 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: April, 1992 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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