subject is nothing less that the variety of human life and love. In The Book of Embraces, Galeano goes out on the tightrope and then levitates in the air above it. The Book of Embraces is a mosaic, or Deigo Rivera mural in words. is a dangerous radical storyteller, like Gabriel Garcia Marquez, like Isabel Allende, and like Pablo Neruda before them. Cedric Belfrage was an author, journalist, translator, and co-founder of the radical weekly newspaper the National Guardian. subject is nothing less that the variety of human life and love. Eduardo Galeano (19402015) was the author of Open Veins of Latin America, Days and Nights of Love and War, The Book of Embraces, We Say No, and other works. In 'The Book of Embraces', Galeano goes out on the tightrope and then levitates in the air above it.

The factual skeleton of the author's life is given flesh and blood in his strangely beautiful book, in which poetry, fiction, autobiography, history, fantasy and political commentary mingle and reinforce each other in unexpected ways. The blurb aptly captures the book: Parable, paradox, anecdote. Galeano's surreal drawings complement the text, blending wild imagination, pointed satire and old-fashioned charm. Itai: The Book of Embraces by Eduardo Galeano, one of the most profound writers out of Latin America.

to his own life and the contemporary scene. (Apr.In an enchanting book of wonders, Uruguayan writer Galeano applies the collage-like technique of 'Memory of Fire'.

Galeano's surreal drawings complement the text, blending wild imagination, pointed satire and old-fashioned charm. Bankruptcies are socialized while profits are privatized.'' Lovers, executioners, fabulous animals, slavish bureaucrats and the numberless poor inhabit his dreamlike parables and mini-stories (many a single page or shorter), which hop from Amsterdam to Hollywood. His targets range from or more vivid:`He skewers.'? aa/leave as is.g political repression in Chile, Guatemala and Marxist Cuba to whites' persecution of Native Americans to the inequities of any system in which ``voters vote but don't elect. do you mean `cultural character' `lack of individuality'aa? /works without.gs of our time. His sociopolitical commentaries expose the shallow selfishness and callousness vague. redundant and you later make clear that these are short pieces.aa He writes of his years in exile during Uruguay's military dictatorship in the 1970s, of his heart attack and of his wife's loss of a child halfway to term. In an enchanting book of wonders, Uruguayan writer Galeano applies the collage-like technique of Memory of Fire, his fictive historical trilogy of the Americas, to his own life and the contemporary scene.