Description
This time, the focus of Faces and Masks , the second volume of Eduardo Galeano 's Memories of Fire Trilogy , is the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when rebellions against slavery and exploitation took place in the New World and wars of independence were fought.
We witness epics of resistance to oppression and tyranny in hundreds of stories that develop through many characters, from Simón Bolivar, the great leader who fought for a free and united Latin America, to the Cuban poet José Martí, the voice of the oppressed, and are continued in a mosaic style, as in the first volume. However, imperialists, who had to give up their old methods of exploitation, are resorting to new methods this time.
In the Fire Memories Trilogy, where research, journalism and revolutionary perspective combine, Galeano continues to bring the lost and silenced realities of history to the stage one by one with his poetic narrative and brave language.