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In 1970, Eduardo Galeano, a feisty young Uruguayan newspaperman who had taken up writing after unsatisfactory stints as a sign painter, factory worker, bill collector, and bank teller, wrote Open Veins of Latin America, which sold more than a million copies around the world.

Open Veins was a new kind of history: lyrical, accessible, and passionate in its denouncement of the tyrants—both domestic and foreign—who stunted the growth of democratic societies in Latin America. The book’s frank demands for justice—and its overwhelming success—eventually led to Galeano being jailed in the early stages of a right-wing coup. Upon being released, he fled to Argentina and, after a coup there as well, to Spain, where he lived for eight years. During that time Galeano started work on the trilogy Memory of Fire, which offers a sweeping, poetic account of life in the Americas, drawing upon his meticulous historical research and affinity for the people of Latin America as well as his considerable literary talent.