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Last words from a continental explorer
MICHAL BONCZA recommends the final collection of works by the great Eduardo Galeano
Revelatory: Eduardo Galeano

Hunter of Stories
by Eduardo Galeano
(Constable £14.99)

IN LATIN America, time is measured before and after Eduardo Galeano’s book Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent.

A literary Pandora’s Box if ever there was one, it's a book that transformed the continent’s self-awareness by tearing down the veil of falsity drawn over its true history by bourgeois apologists.

Published in 1971, it was soon banned by all the dictatorships of the region except in the author’s native Uruguay where the military thought, for a while, that it was a medical manual.

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