Days and Nights of Love and War

Title: Days and Nights of Love and War
Author: Eduardo Galeano
ISBN: 978-81-89833-70-1
Binding: paperback
Publisher: Aakar books
Number of Pages: 178
Price: Rs 225

Days and Nights of Love and War is the personal testimony of one of Latin America’s foremost contemporary writers. In this fascinating journal and eloquent history, Eduardo Galeano movingly records the lives and struggles of the Latin American people, under two decades of unimaginable violence and extreme repression. Alternating between reportage, personal vignettes, interviews, travelougues, and folklore, and richly conveyed with anger, sadness, irony and occasional humor, Galeano pays loving tribute to the courage and determination of those who continued to believe in, and fight for, a more human existence.


Originally published in Cuba, Days and Nights of Love and War won the Casa de las Amèricas prize (1978).


Lannan Foundation awarded the 1999 Cultural Prize for Freedom to Eduardo Galeano, in recognition of those “whose extraordinary and courageous work celebrates the human right to freedom of imagination, inquiry and expression

Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone

Title: Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone
Author: Eduardo Galeano
ISBN: 9781846272479
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Portobello
Number of Pages: 391
Price: Rs 599.00

In Mirrors, Galeano smashes aside the narrative of conventional history and arranges the shards into a new pattern, to reveal the past in radically altered form.

From the Garden of Eden to twenty-first century cityscapes, we glimpse fragments in the lives of those who have been overlooked by traditional histories: the artists, the servants, the gods and the visionaries, the black slaves who built the White House, and the women who were bartered for dynastic ends.

Combining unimpeachably vast knowledge with irresistible fireside storytelling skills, Galeano’s world history is completely unique: a ground-breaking, mind-changing mosaic made of lives lived on our sorry, sparkling planet.

About the Author
Eduardo Galeano's works, which have been translated into 28 languages, include Memory of Fire; Soccer in Sun and Shadow; Days and Nights of Love and War; The Book of Embraces; Open Veins; and Voices of Time. Born in Montevideo, he fled in 1973 after the military coup’s leaders imprisoned him, and lived in exile first in Argentina until death threats there forced him onward to Spain, until returning to Uruguay in 1985 upon the collapse of the military dictatorship. He has lived there since, active in journalism, television and politics. He was awarded the first Lannan Prize for Cultural Freedom.