MIRRORS is a history of the human adventure distilled into potent timeless stories barely longer than aphorisms. Galeano boils down epic volumes to their poetic essence in his most ambitious project since Memory of Fire, the landmark recreation of 500 years in the Americas. In Mirrors, his perspective widens to 5,000 years of history and the breadth of the entire world, retold as a series of breathtakingly immediate human stories. Recalling the lives of artists, writers, god from the Garden of Eden to the black slaves who built the White House, Mirrors is a magical mosaic of our humanity. The book inverts world histories written by victors -- against horror, against defeat, against oblivion -- recounting in an inimitably impish and mystical way, the songs and stories of humanity that have been forgotten: the voices of the all those invisible.