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Cover of Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History

Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History

✍ Scribed by Galeano, Eduardo

Book ID
107492317
Tongue
English
Weight
929 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781568589718

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✦ Synopsis

Unfurling like a medieval book of days, each page of Eduardo Galeano’s Children of the Days has an illuminating story that takes inspiration from that date of the calendar year, resurrecting the heroes and heroines who have fallen off the historical map, but whose lives remind us of our darkest hours and sweetest victories.

Challenging readers to consider the human condition and our own choices, Galeano elevates the little-known heroes of our world and decries the destruction of the intellectual, linguistic, and emotional treasures that we have all but forgotten.

Readers will discover many inspiring narratives in this collection of vignettes: the Brazilians who held a β€œsmooch-in” to protest against a dictatorship for banning kisses that β€œundermined public morals”; the astonishing day Mexico invaded the United States; and the β€œsacrilegious” women who had the effrontery to marry each other in a church in the Galician...

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