Eduardo Galeano - Dias e Noites de Amor e de Guerra

Born of repression in Uruguay, written during the author's exile, Days and Nights of Love and War (1978, Casa de las Américas Prize) is a powerful testament to everyday life in times of fascism, to the machine of fear that silences people, and to the courage of those who refused to be silent.

Eduardo Galeano's short stories and chronicles are a mirror of his own life: beautiful yet haunting, heterogeneous yet never scattered, united by the urgency of memory, the desire to crystallize the endless days and sleepless nights of those who, between the scaffold and censorship, chose to fight and love.

A celebration of the vitality and perseverance of an entire continent, along lines of uncommon historical sensitivity and expressive mastery, "Days and Nights of Love" and War rescues from oblivion companions, lovers and strangers, the dead and the living, people of all stripes who suffered the diaspora, hardship and repression of Latin America's "years of lead."