Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone

Mirrors, Galeano s most ambitious project since Memory of Fire, is an unofficial history of the world seen through history s unseen, unheard, and forgotten. As Galeano notes: “Official history has it that Vasco Núñez de Balboa was the first man to see, from a summit in Panama, the two oceans at once. Were the people who lived there blind??”

Recalling the lives of artists, writers, gods, and visionaries, from the Garden of Eden to twenty-first-century New York, of the black slaves who built the White House and the women erased by men s fears, and told in hundreds of kaleidoscopic vignettes, Mirrors is a magic mosaic of our humanity.