Days and Nights of Love and War
by Eduardo Galeano
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"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 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 show more 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. 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." Originally published in Cuba, Days and Nights of Love and War won the Casa de las Américas prize in 1978. show lessTags
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I've almost finished a wonderful book called Days and Nights of Love and War by Eduardo Galeano, a native of Montevideo. The book was originally published in Cuba but my copy is imported from America. It is a series of recollections from memory, scraps of character and incident, mainly centred around Buenos Aires and Montevideo during the dirty wars of the 1970s. Heartfelt and beautifully written it is a candid and overt testimony to the memory of those who refused to be silenced.
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Reflexión personal y política que captura el exilio, la represión y el amor en la América Latina de los años 70.
Oct 29, 2025Spanish
uit boeklog:Wat ik altijd in Galeano waardeer, is dat hij ondanks het leed dat in zijn boeken zo ruim voorkomt, toch de lezer altijd lucht biedt. Dat maakt zijn werk zo rijk, en van de weeromstuit zo enorm veel andere boeken zo dor.Nee, het gaat ook om passie. Om iets te zeggen te hebben
Mar 29, 2009Dutch
Bellísimo y brutal.
Sep 22, 2020Spanish
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Eduardo Galeano was born on September 3, 1940 in Montevideo, Uruguay. At the age of 13, he began publishing cartoons for the Uruguayan socialist newspaper El Sol. He worked as a journalist, historian, and political activist. While in his early 30s, he was imprisoned during a right-wing military coup and later forced to flee from Uruguay to show more Argentina. Later, another coup and several death threats forced him to leave Argentina for Spain where he lived in exile until he was permitted to return to Uruguay in 1984. During his lifetime, he wrote numerous fiction and non-fiction works including Days and Nights of Love and War, Football in Sun and Shadow, Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent, Guatemala: Occupied Country, The Book of Embraces, and Children of the Days. In 1989, he won the American Book Award for Memory of Fire. He died of cancer on April 13, 2015 at the age of 74. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- Canonical title*
- Días y noches de amor y de guerra
- Original publication date
- 1978
- Important places
- Uruguay
- Dedication*
- Este livro é dedicado a Helena Villagra
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- Genres
- Biography & Memoir, History
- DDC/MDS
- 980.033 — History & geography History of South America History of South America History of South America 1830-1999 1918-1949
- LCC
- PQ8520.17 .A4 .D513 — Language and Literature French, Italian, Spanish and Portuguese literatures Spanish literature Provincial, local, colonial, etc. Spanish America
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- ISBNs
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