Eduardo Galeano - Voices of Time - A Life in Stories

He’s always first. When the end of night approaches, silence is broken by the one out of tune. The one out of tune, the bird who never tires, awakens the master singers. And before first light, all the birds in the world begin their serenade at the window, sailing over the flowers, over their reflections.

A few sing for love of the art. Others broadcast news or recount gossip or tell jokes or give speeches or proclaim delight. But all of them, artists, reporters, gossips, wags, cranks, and crazies, join in a single orchestral overture.

Do birds announce the morning? Or, by singing, do they create it?

EDUARDO GALEANO is one of Latin America’s most admired writers, as well as a distinguished journalist and historian. The winner of the first Lannan Foundation Cultural Freedom Prize in 1998, he is the author of Upside Down, the Memory of Fire trilogy (for which he won the 1989 American Book Award), Open Veins of Latin America, and many other works. He lives in Montevideo, Uruguay.

EDUARDO GALEANO is one of Latin America’s foremost writers, as well as a distinguished journalist and historian. The winner of the first Lannan Foundation Cultural Freedom Prize in 1998, he is the author of Upside Down, the Memory of Fire trilogy (for which he won the 1989 American Book Award), Open Veins of Latin America, and many other works. He lives in Montevideo, Uruguay.

“This catalog of crimes and absurdities has both the acidity of Jonathan Swift and his dark humor. Who else can make the skeletons dance the way Galeano does?”

— The New Yorker

“Full of empathy, candor, unsettling connections…Galeano is serious but far from deadly….From the Internet to Interpol, from the vapidity of television to auto-itis, nothing is safe from his committed deconstructions.”

— The New York Times Book Review

“Galeano uses his craft to invade the reader’s mind, to persuade him or her to surrender to the charm of his writing and the power of his idealism.”

— Isabel Allende, author of My Invented Country