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Children of the Days : a Calendar of Human History by Galeano, Eduardo;Fried, Mark(Translator) is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

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**Selected by __Guernica__ magazine as an "Editors’ Picks: Best of 2013"** 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 smooch-in” to protest against a dictatorship for banning kisses that undermined public morals”; the astonishing day Mexico invaded the United States; and the sacrilegious” women who had the effrontery to marry each other in a church in the Galician city of A Coruña in 1901. Galeano also highlights individuals such as Pedro Fernandes Sardinha, the first bishop of Brazil, who was eaten by Caeté Indians off the coast of Alagoas, as well as

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Author

Galeano, Eduardo;Fried, Mark(Translator)

Publisher

Nation Books; Allen Lane

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9781568587479

Category

history

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Historical Fiction

Rating

4.15 / 5 (239 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14