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Genesis: Memory of Fire, Volume 1
by Eduardo Galeano
This is on my "for school" shelf, but really, we only had to read the first 65 pages for school. I continued because it is such a fabulous book, and I don't regret it, even if it did take me all semester. It was well worth the time it took to get through it, and I enjoyed every minute of it.
It reads almost like a book of poems, or at least that's how I read it. It's like a mosaic of small snapshots that, put together, tell a horror story. It's like reading a scrapbook through pictures. It's absolutely fantastic, and it's really hard to classify exactly what it is. Even the author says that in the introduction. But, in my opinion, it tells the story of the Americas perfectly. Galeano's language is creative and poetic, telling even the most horrific of stories in a way that's absolutely beautiful. Often, I found myself so wonderstruck by his wording I had to stop for a second to soak it in.
If you ask me, this is rather a balanced and honest portrayal of what happened, a perspective the almost never gets told, and it's truly told beautifully.
I'm not sure if the reader is supposed to be able to follow the stories of individual people. I did to an extent, but I couldn't really follow them easily because of the fragmented way it was written. This didn't bother me at all. For me, it served to show how widespread and unanimous the oppression was. It was as if there was so much of it, you couldn't pin it down to any specific person. Honestly, there is nothing I can criticize about this book and I absolutely cannot wait to read the next two.
It reads almost like a book of poems, or at least that's how I read it. It's like a mosaic of small snapshots that, put together, tell a horror story. It's like reading a scrapbook through pictures. It's absolutely fantastic, and it's really hard to classify exactly what it is. Even the author says that in the introduction. But, in my opinion, it tells the story of the Americas perfectly. Galeano's language is creative and poetic, telling even the most horrific of stories in a way that's absolutely beautiful. Often, I found myself so wonderstruck by his wording I had to stop for a second to soak it in.
If you ask me, this is rather a balanced and honest portrayal of what happened, a perspective the almost never gets told, and it's truly told beautifully.
I'm not sure if the reader is supposed to be able to follow the stories of individual people. I did to an extent, but I couldn't really follow them easily because of the fragmented way it was written. This didn't bother me at all. For me, it served to show how widespread and unanimous the oppression was. It was as if there was so much of it, you couldn't pin it down to any specific person. Honestly, there is nothing I can criticize about this book and I absolutely cannot wait to read the next two.