"Days and Nights succeeds not only because of its socio-political authenticity and lyrical style but because of its interweaving of anger and tenderness, elation and sorrow."
-The Nation
Days and Nights of Love and War is the personal testimony of one of Latin America's foremost contemporaru writers. In this fascination journal and eloquent history, Eduardo Galeano movingly records the lives and struggles of the Latin American people, under two decades of unimaginable violence and extreme repression. Alternation between reportage, personal vignettes, interviews, travelogues, and folkllore, and richly conveyed with anger, sadness, irony, and occasional humor, Galeano pays loving tribute to the courage and determination of those who continued to believe in, and fight for, a more human existence.
EDUARDO GALEANO is the author of Open Veins of Latin America, Memory of Fire Thrilogy, Book of Embraces, and Upside Down.
SANDRA CISNEROS is the highly acclaimed author of House on Mango Street, Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories, My Wicked Wicked Ways, Loose Woman: Poems, and Hairs: Pelitos.
