{"product_id":"children-of-the-days-9780141975986","title":"Children of the Days","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom Eduardo Galeano, one of Latin America''s greatest living writers, author of the \u003ci\u003eMemory of Fire \u003c\/i\u003etrilogy, comes \u003ci\u003eChildren of the Days,\u003c\/i\u003e a new kind of history that shows us how to remember and how to live\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book is shaped like a calendar. Each day brings with it a story: a journey, feast or tragedy that really happened on that date, from all possible years and all corners of the world. From Abdul Kassem Ismail, the tenth-century Persian who never went anywhere without his library - all seventeen thousand books of it, on four hundred camels; to the Brazilian city of Sorocaba, which on February 8 1980 responded to the outlawing of public kissing by becoming one huge kissodrome; to July 1 2008, the day the US government decided to remove Nelson Mandela''s name from its list of dangerous terrorists, \u003ci\u003eChildren of the Days\u003c\/i\u003e takes aim at the pretensions of official history and illuminates moments and heroes that we have all but forgotten. Through this sh\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eGaleano's condensed history is, like life, at once dark and fascinating -- Mina Holland * Observer *\u003cbr\u003eA kind of epigrammatic excavation, uprooting stories that have been mislaid or misappropriated, and presenting them in their full glory, horror or absurdity . . . with a wry and scathing wit -- Gary Younge * Guardian *\u003cbr\u003eDeeply humane . . . he has produced literature that will endure, monuments to the imagination -- Toby Green * Independent *\u003cbr\u003eWonderful, glittering, remarkable * Financial Times *\u003cbr\u003eMarries meticulous journalistic detail with lyrical flair ... his inner Stephen Fry can point out that for Mayas, Jews, Arabs, the Chinese and others, January 1st doesn't herald the New Year at all, before adding the optimistic kicker that given the transience of time, this day is as good as any other \"to be bright and joyous as the colours of an outdoor market\" * The Times *\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Books Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732497019223,"sku":"9780141975986","price":11.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780141975986.jpg?v=1719997142","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/children-of-the-days-9780141975986","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}