Children of the Days av Eduardo Galeano

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<p><b>From Eduardo Galeano, one of Latin America''s greatest living writers, author of the <i>Memory of Fire </i>trilogy, comes <i>Children of the Days,</i> a new kind of history that shows us how to remember and how to live<br></b><br>This book is shaped like a calendar. 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 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 February 8 1980 responded 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, <i>Children of the Days</i> takes aim at the pretensions of official history and illuminates moments and heroes that we have all but forgotten. Through this sh