Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History

Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History by Eduardo Galeano


ISBN
9781846147661
Published
Released
01 / 07 / 2013
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
448
Dimensions
144 x 222 x 39mm

This book contains a story from history for every day of the year: a journey, feast, tragedy, revolution or little-known occurrence that happened on that date but has slipped through the cracks of memory.

From Abdul Kassem Ismail, the tenth-century Persian who never went anywhere without his library - all seventeen thousand books of it, alphabetically arranged, on four hundred camels; to the Brazilian city of Sorocaba, which on February 8 1980 responded to the outlawing of public kissing by becoming one huge kissodrome; to July 1 2008, the day the US government decided to remove Nelson Mandela's name from its list of dangerous terrorists, Children of the Days takes aim at the pretensions of official history and illuminates moments and heroes that we have all but forgotten.

Resonant, unflinchingly radical, mordantly funny, it joins humanity's darkest hours to its sweetest victories. It is the story of our lives.
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