Book of Embraces (Norton Paperback)

This is easily one of the greatest books of the 20th cerntury. The world is very slowly coming around to realize it. Read it before Oprah gets a hold of it and ruins it for everyone. Ha.

Eduardo Galeano é um jornalista-poeta, poeta-jornalista, alguma coisa do gênero... é lindo mesmo quando é aterrorizantemente verdadeiro....

Micro stories- good for the busy reader. Just enough to stimulate your imagination and keep you among the rich-inner-world living.

This book will change you. It is beautiful writing that has an urgent message of faith in the world, humanity, nature, and all things wonderful.

This book I re-read every few months. It is a series of little 'stories', each one unique in personality. They can evoke either nostalgia, sadness, hope, love or just make you wonder. I love it.

Worth your precious time to read. Quick read. Profound observations of human experience presented in poetic and concise snippets.

El mejor de Eduardo Galeano, un autor con muchos altibajos. Éste es, para mí, el más redondo. El hecho de que esté hecho con pequeñas historias, contado a trocitos, hace que sea muy fácil de leer. Incluso en la playa.

Probably the most perfect book I've ever read. Easy to read. Easy to understand. Easy to re-read and re-understand. This is writing that never, ever leaves you.

Once Upon a Time I owned this book and it was perfect. Some might argue that it's bite sized chunks of magic realism. Actually it's the stories of life that takes bites sized chunks out of our arms, our legs, fingers, ears, and so forth, leaving in most cases a remarkable jagged scar. And its the images that the scar forms from staring at it hours on end, that become the narrative of us.

He is one of my top three favorite authors. His work is so beautiful. I heard him do a reading on a video that I borrowed from school and watched it 3 times. If I could ever hear him read in person it would be fantastic!