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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
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JULIA TOPPIN recommends Patti Smith’s eloquent memoir that wrestles with the beauty and sorrow of a lifetime
MARJORIE MAYO welcomes an account of family life after Oscar Wilde, a cathartic exercise, written by his grandson
KEN COCKBURN guides us through a survey of Chekov’s early short fiction, and the groundwork it laid for his later masterpieces
ANDY HEDGECOCK revels in a hugely enjoyable but deadly serious examination of the 1930s, that is an indictment of our own era
The bard distills our hellish times into fiery words
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.
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