Hunter of Stories
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    [synopsis] => The internationally acclaimed last work by the legendary Latin American writer

 Master storyteller Eduardo Galeano was unique among his contemporaries (Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Mario Vargas Llosa among them) for his commitment to retelling our many histories, including the stories of those who were disenfranchised. A philosopher poet, his nonfiction is infused with such passion and imagination that it matches the intensity and the appeal of Latin America's very best fiction.

 Comprised of all new material, published here for the first time in a wonderful English translation by longtime collaborator Mark Fried, Hunter of Stories is a deeply considered collection of Galeano's final musings and stories on history, memory, humor, and tragedy. Written in his signature style -- vignettes that fluidly combine dialogue, fables, and anecdotes -- every page displays the original thinking and compassion that has earned Galeano decades and continents of renown. Eduardo Galeano (1940-2015) was one of Latin America's most distinguished writers. A Uruguayan journalist, writer, and novelist, he was considered, among other things, "a literary giant of the Latin American left" and "global soccer's preeminent man of letters." He is the author of the three-volume Memory of Fire, Open Veins of Latin America, Soccer in Sun and Shadow, The Book of Embraces, Walking Words, Upside Down, and Voices in Time. Born in Montevideo in 1940, he lived in exile in Argentina and Spain for years before returning to Uruguay. 

 His work has been translated into twenty-eight languages. He is the recipient of many international prizes, including the first Lannan Prize for Cultural Freedom, the Casa de las Americas Prize, and the First Distinguished Citizen of the region by the countries of Mercosur. Galeano once described himself as "a writer obsessed with remembering, with remembering the past of America and above all that of Latin America, intimate land condemned to amnesia." Isabel Allende, who said her copy of Galeano's book was one of the few items with which she fled Chile in 1973 after the military coup of Augusto Pinochet, called Open Veins of Latin America "a mixture of meticulous detail, political conviction, poetic flair, and good storytelling." "This is Galeano's parting gift, arriving to us, like
a message from another dimension, from beyond the grave. It is more generous,
wise, and wonderful than I dared hope."-Naomi Klein,author of No Is Not Enough "Galeano was a master
of the shattered story. He had a way of making realism magical without being a
magical realist. This book is yet another demonstration of his brilliance."-Arundhati Roy, author of The God of Small Things "Story-hunter
and -gatherer Galeano has captured a covey of extraordinary tales from the wise
everybodies of the world and from his own wise observations. They are
medicine for our times-tales to break our hearts open and restore us our
humanity. To experience them alone is transformational. But to watch
them soar to their full potential, they must be released from captivity and
read aloud."-SandraCisneros, authorof House on Mango Street "Like a
magician, combining on the page the arts of reading, storytelling and civic
ethics, Eduardo Galeano conjures up for us long-forgotten images of our many
worlds. If, as we have always suspected, our geographies spring from our
stories, Galeano is our master geographer."-Alberto Manguel, author of The Dictionary of Imaginary Places "Meticulously
sculpted...with the lively and inimitable voice of a passionate rebel and
storyteller... With a keen sense for ironic reversals and equal measures of sly
humor, empathy, anguish, and hope, this compendium of bite-size stories of
resistance (elegantly translated by longtime collaborator Fried) is a worthy
addition to the celebrated oeuvre of a writer who remains a towering figure
both as an artist and a voice of conscience across Latin America and the
world."-Publisher's Week
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