Days and Nights of Love and War

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    Eduardo Galeano

    Publisher: Monthly Review Press

    Year: 2000

    Format: Paperback

    Size: 179 pages

    ISBN: 9781583670231

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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.

What People Are Saying

Originally published in Cuba, Days and Nights of Love and War won the Casa de las Américas prize (1978).

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."

"Days and Nights is a testimony to the power of fear to silence a population. It is also a testimony to the courage of those who refuse to be silenced… 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

About the Author

Eduardo Galeano is the author of Open Veins of Latin America, Memory of Fire Trilogy (American Book Award, 1989), Book of Embraces and Upside Down. Sandra Cisneros is the highly acclaimed author of The House on Mango Street (1991), Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories, My Wicked, Wicked Ways, Loose Woman: Poems, and Hairs: Pelitos.

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