Walking Words - by Eduardo Galeano (Paperback)

Number of Pages: 330
Genre: Social Science
Sub-Genre: Folklore & Mythology
Format: Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Age Range: Adult
Author: Eduardo Galeano
Language: English

About the Book

The author of Memory of Fire presents a brilliant feat of storytelling inspired by the folklore of rural and urban Latin America. Beautifully illustrated by Brazilian woodcut artist Jose Francisco Borges, these tales are testaments to the power of stories to make and remake and enchant the world. Featured on National Public Radio.

Book Synopsis

In Walking Words world-renowned author Eduardo Galeano draws on the folklore of rural and urban Latin America to discover and retell the stories of ghouls and fools that Id like to write. These tales are beautifully illustrated by his collaborator, the Brazilian woodcut artist José Francisco Borges, and become testaments to the power of stories to make and remake and enchant the world.

Review Quotes

Anyone with a liking for fables, aphorisms, myths, fairy tales, philosophical parables, childrens stories, lurid tabloid headlines or clever graffiti will find plenty to enjoy. . . . At his best Galeano rivals such masters of the fable as Kafka and that other Borges, and it is to their work that his haunting pages should rightly be compared.--Michael Dirda "Washington Post Book World"