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Eduardo Galeano's 'Mirrors' Rewrites Human History

By Derrick O'Keefe
The Georgia Straight | July 27, 2009
It's hard to think of another living author who would have the nerve to consider writing a book like Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone. But for Uruguay's Eduardo Galeano, this collection of vignettes, covering the breadth of human history, was a natural fit.
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