{"product_id":"genesis-memory-of-fire-volume-1-volume-1-9781568584447","title":"Genesis: Memory of Fire, Volume 1: Volume 1","description":"\u003ci\u003eGenesis\u003c\/i\u003e, the first volume in Eduardo Galeano's \u003ci\u003eMemory of Fire\u003c\/i\u003e trilogy, is both a meditation on the clashes between the Old World and the New and, in the author's words, an attempt to \"rescue the kidnapped memory of all America.\" It is a fierce, impassioned, and kaleidoscopic historical experience that takes us from the creation myths of the Makiritare Indians of the Yucatan to Columbus's first, joyous moments in the New World to the English capture of New York.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eEduardo Galeano\u003c\/b\u003e (1940-2015) was one of Latin America's most distinguished writers. A Uruguayan journalist, writer, and novelist, he was considered, among other things, \"a literary giant of the Latin American left\" and \"global soccer's preeminent man of letters.\" He is the author of the three-volume Memory of Fire, \u003ci\u003eOpen Veins of Latin America, Soccer in Sun and Shadow, The Book of Embraces, Walking Words, Upside Down\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eVoices in Time\u003c\/i\u003e. Born in Montevideo in 1940, he lived in exile in Argentina and Spain for years before returning to Uruguay. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e His work has been translated into twenty-eight languages. He is the recipient of many international prizes, including the first Lannan Prize for Cultural Freedom, the Casa de las Americas Prize, and the First Distinguished Citizen of the region by the countries of Mercosur. Galeano once described himself as \"a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past of America and above all that of Latin America, intimate land condemned to amnesia.\" Isabel Allende, who said her copy of Galeano's book was one of the few items with which she fled Chile in 1973 after the military coup of Augusto Pinochet, called \u003ci\u003eOpen Veins of Latin America\u003c\/i\u003e \"a mixture of meticulous detail, political conviction, poetic flair, and good storytelling.\"\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Bold Type Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50627731390738,"sku":"9781568584447","price":11.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_6e98d8c4-1f42-4176-ba5f-631b3d0e8f17.jpg?v=1732719105","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/genesis-memory-of-fire-volume-1-volume-1-9781568584447","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}