Memory of Fire III (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Eduardo Galeano
- Type of Work: History
- Time of Work: The twentieth century
- Setting: Primarily Latin America; also North America and Europe
- Genres: Nonfiction, History
- Subjects: Culture, Tradition, Nature, Native Americans or American Indians, Ethnic groups, Minorities, Latin America or Latin Americans, Natural resources
Distinguished Uruguayan historian and writer Eduardo Galeano's Century of the Wind (volume 3 of Memory of Fire) is an ambitious undertaking meant to teach his fellow residents of the Western Hemisphere about their own history as well as to educate readers outside the hemisphere regarding the turbulent, often-chaotic events that formed twentieth century Latin America. Century of the Wind is the third volume of a trilogy whose other volumes are Génesis (1982; English translation, 1985) and Las caras y las máscaras (1984; Faces and Masks,...
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