A review by gomar93
Days and Nights of Love and War by Eduardo Galeano

5.0

If there is a single text less than 200 pages that can better simultaneously transport one through the traumatic history of Latin America and give one hope for the improvement of the region through knowledge, I want to know of it! The poetics of Galeano's mostly biographical entries, so rapid-fire and yet complete, make me long for a book like this written by every author I admire. (Take, for example, Sandra Cisneros's wonderful adoption of the journal entry style to pay tribute to Galeano in the introduction). He composes each entry with a grace that is emblematic of all Latin America's greatest authors, crushing the limitations of time to fuse personal memory with the greater Latin American saga. In short, I felt I was Bolívar's ghost reading Galeano's prose, shaking my head for what has become, but also feeling nostalgic for the places I've been and feeling renewed to challenge the horrors that almost 40 years later linger from where we have come.