{"product_id":"mirrors-stories-of-almost-everyone-9781568586120","title":"Mirrors: Stories of Almost Everyone","description":"Throughout his career, Eduardo Galeano has turned our understanding of history and reality on its head. Isabelle Allende said his works \"invade the reader's mind, to persuade him or her to surrender to the charm of his writing and power of his idealism.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eMirrors\u003c\/i\u003e, Galeano's most ambitious project since \u003ci\u003eMemory of Fire\u003c\/i\u003e, is an unofficial history of the world seen through history's unseen, unheard, and forgotten. As Galeano notes: \"Official history has it that Vasco N  de Balboa was the first man to see, from a summit in Panama, the two oceans at once. Were the people who lived there blind \" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Recalling the lives of artists, writers, gods, and visionaries, from the Garden of Eden to twenty-first-century New York, of the black slaves who built the White House and the women erased by men's fears, and told in hundreds of kaleidoscopic vignettes, \u003ci\u003eMirrors\u003c\/i\u003e is a magic mosaic of our humanity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Bold Type Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/28\/2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781568586120\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 391\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.02lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.16h x 5.48w x 1.09d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations: \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e 12\/19\/2010 pg. 20\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Eduardo Galeano","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36660025458844,"sku":"9781568586120","price":15.29,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_414e0d5a-0e64-4896-9ca5-c9e26581e600.jpg?v=1603895979","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/mirrors-stories-of-almost-everyone-9781568586120","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}