Children of the Days: A Calendar of Human History

A fearless, poetic, day-by-day account of human history, narrated by one of Latin America's most beloved and influential writers

"The amazing Galeano has done it again. History becomes poetry, and mythology becomes politic." — The San Francisco Chronicle

Unfurling like a medieval book of days, each page of Eduardo Galeano’s Children of the Days has an illuminating story that takes inspiration from that date of the calendar year, resurrecting the heroes and heroines who have fallen off the...