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Children of the Days (Penguin)

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From Eduardo Galeano, one of Latin America’s greatest living writers, author of the ‘Memory of Fire’ trilogy, comes ‘Children of the Days’, a new kind of history that shows us how to remember and how to live This book is shaped like a calendar. Each day brings with it a story: a journey, feast or tragedy that really happened on that date, from all possible years and all corners of the world. From Abdul Kassem Ismail, the tenth-century Persian who never went anywhere without his library – all seventeen thousand books of it, on four hundred camels; to the Brazilian city of Sorocaba, which on February 8 1980 responded to the outlawing of public kissing by becoming one huge kissodrome; to July 1 2008, the day the US government decided to remove Nelson Mandela’s name from its list of dangerous terrorists, Children of the Days takes aim at the pretensions of official history and illuminates moments and heroes that we have all but forgotten. Through this shimmering historical mosaic runs a common thread, one that joins humanity’s darkest hours to its sweetest victories. ‘Children of the Days’ is the story of our lives.

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Artikelnummer: 39223 Categorie: Tag:
Subtitel: A Calendar of Human History
Auteur: Galeano, Eduardo
Jaar: 2014
ISBN: 9780141975986
Pagina's: 448
Taal: English
Uitgever: Penguin
Uitgever stad: London
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