Memory of fire
By: Eduardo Galeano ; translated by Cedric Belfrage.
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Pantheon Books
Published: 1985
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng; spa
Subjects: Latin America -- History -- Anecdotes.; America -- History -- Anecdotes.
Description: A re-creation of the conquest of the Americas and Latin America, divided into three parts. In the first are the myths of pre-Columbian America; in the second the history of America unfolds from the 15th to 19th century, and in the third 1900 to 1986. This trilogy differs from most in that it presents the making of the New World from the viewpoint of Latin America.
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Translation of: Memoria del fuego.
Table of contents: title: 1. Genesis; title: 2. Faces and masks; title: Century of the wind.