Eduardo Galeano

Soccer in Sun and Shadow

Essays analyzing soccer history, culture, and social significance in Latin America

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Eduardo Galeano
Eduardo Galeano

Uruguayan journalist and writer whose Open Veins of Latin America is the defining radical history of colonial and imperial exploitation in Latin America. Memory of Fire is his epic three-volume prose poem of American history. His work combines passionate political commitment with extraordinary literary beauty.

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