Faces and Masks by Eduardo Galeano - 1987-03-01

Pantheon Books, 1987. Hardcover. Good. Disclaimer:Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Hardback. Very Good.

London: Quarter Books, 1987. Presumed First U.K. Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. C. Ruth Hope (Cover illustration). xvi, [2], 276, [8] pages. Sources. Illustrations. This was originally published in 1984 in Spain as Memoria del fuego, II. Los caras y las mascaras. Eduardo Hughes Galeano (3 September 1940 - 13 April 2015) was a Uruguayan journalist, writer and novelist considered, among other things, "global soccer's pre-eminent man of letters" and "a literary giant of the Latin American left". Galeano's best-known works are Las venas abiertas de América Latina (Open Veins of Latin America, 1971) and Memoria del fuego (Memory of Fire Trilogy, 1982-6). "I'm a writer," the author once said of himself, "obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past of America and above all that of Latin America, intimate land condemned to amnesia." Author Isabel Allende called Open Veins of Latin America "a mixture of meticulous detail, political conviction, poetic flair, and good… Read More