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Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World
Upside Down A Primer for the LookingGlass World Author:Eduardo Galeano, Jose Guadalupe Posada Eduardo Galeano, author of the incomparable Memory of Fire trilogy, combines a novelist's intensity, a poet's lyricism, a journalist's fearlessness, and the strong judgments of an engaged historian. Now his talents are richly displayed in Upside Down, an eloquent, passionate, sometimes hilarious expos of our first-world privileges and assumptio... more »ns. In a series of lesson plans and a "program of study" about our beleaguered planet, Galeano takes the reader on a wild trip through the global looking glass. From a master class in "The Impunity of Power" to a seminar on "The Sacred Car"-with tips along the way on "How to Resist Useless Vices" and a declaration of "The Right to Rave"-he surveys a world unevenly divided between abundance and deprivation, carnival and torture, power and helplessness. We have accepted a reality we should reject, Galeano teaches us, one where machines are more precious than humans, people are hungry, poverty kills, and children toil from dark to dark. A work of fire and charm, Upside Down makes us see the world anew and even glimpse how it might be set right.« less
A real eye-opener for us "Americans." Engagingly written in a chap-book style, Galeano tells the wrenching truth about our shared history, and turns your perceptions upside-down.