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Last words from a continental explorer
MICHAL BONCZA recommends the final collection of works by the great Eduardo Galeano
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Hunter of Stories
by Eduardo Galeano
(Constable £14.99)
IN LATIN America, time is measured before and after Eduardo Galeano’s book Open Veins of Latin America: Five Centuries of the Pillage of a Continent.
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Published in 1971, it was soon banned by all the dictatorships of the region except in the author’s native Uruguay where the military thought, for a while, that it was a medical manual.
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