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. so funny and so moving' - Philip Pullman 'Galeano performs the sort of extraordinary feats of compassion, artistry, and imagination achieved in fiction by his fellow visionary Latin American writers, especially Borges, Garcia Marquez, and Bolano' - Booklist, starred review Eduardo Galeano is one of Latin America's most distinguished writers. Children of the Days is the story of our lives. Through this shimmering historical mosaic runs a common thread, one that joins humanity's darkest hours to its sweetest victories. 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 Februresponded 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. 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 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.

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