Hunter of Stories
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Publisher Description
A fearless and poetic final work by a legendary Latin American writer that masterfully blends history, social commentary, and personal ruminations to capture a brilliant mind at work, and a region in constant flux
"More generous, wise, and wonderful than I dared hope." — Naomi Klein, author of Doppelganger
In Hunter of Stories, master storyteller Eduardo Galeano brings his signature style to the histories and political concerns that defined his career. In more than two-hundred vignettes, ranging from indigenous creation myths to personal reflections on mortality, Galeano captures how history, memory, and tragedy shaped the Latin American psyche.
Comprised of all new material, published here for the first time in a wonderful English translation by longtime collaborator Mark Fried, Hunter of Stories is a deeply considered collection of Galeano’s final musings. In these pages, the transformative nature of personal struggle sits alongside the immensity of colonialism and history. Ever the philosopher poet, Hunters of Stories brims with passion, imagination, and an irreverent belief in the power of storytelling. Every page displays the original thinking and compassion that cemented Galeano as one of Latin America’s most important and enduring voices.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
This collection of aphorisms, anecdotes, and retellings marks the final work completed by famed Uruguayan writer Galeano (Soccer in Sun and Shadow) before his death in 2015. In a manner similar to 2009's Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone, entries come in thematic groupings exploring modes of oppression and imagination across time, place, and circumstance. Entries are rarely more than a page and often much shorter, yet each is meticulously sculpted, conveying an incident, act, or idea in danger of being forgotten, and doing so with the lively and inimitable voice of a passionate rebel and storyteller. Discussing native histories, environmental issues, feminism, political revolutions, race relations, and his beloved soccer, among other areas of concentration, Galeano travels effortlessly across a wide-ranging panoply of near-forgotten people whose deeds more often than not give the lie to more official accounts. With a keen sense for ironic reversals and equal measures of sly humor, empathy, anguish, and hope, this compendium of bite-size stories of resistance (elegantly translated by longtime collaborator Fried) is a worthy addition to the celebrated oeuvre of a writer who remains a towering figure both as an artist and a voice of conscience across Latin America and the world.
