Just look at the new and recent arrivals in bookstores and libraries. “I try to say more with less - because less is more.” -J.R. | more…īad times inhibit good writers, but they also inspire them. “I’m fighting word inflation, which in Latin America is worse than monetary inflation,” he says. Not surprisingly, Galeano’s answers to the questions in this interview are pithy, poetic, humorous, and sometimes oblique. None of the entries is longer than a single page. Mirrors, his newest work, contains more than one hundred short entries about almost everything - from salt to maps and money, and almost everyone, from Cleopatra to Alexander Hamilton and Che Guevara. More recently, he has written shorter books, and practiced a kind of ecology of the word. Then there’s Galeano’s Memory of Fire Trilogy: Genesis, Faces & Masks, and Century of the Wind that adds up to nearly 1,000 pages. Open Veins of Latin America (1973), which Hugo Chávez of Venezuela handed to Barack Obama in May, hoping it would teach him history, is more than 300 pages. In all three of these books, the main character is a sensitive, poetry loving, yet tough-minded police inspector who works for the Shanghai Police Bureau he’s on the city payroll and doesn’t work as a free-lance private eye for hire | more…Įduardo Galeano, who was born in Uruguay in 1940, has written big, thick books. Three of his innovative novels include red in the title: Death of a Red Heroine (2000), When Red Is Black (2004), and Red Mandarin Dress (2007). Qiu Xiaolong-the prolific Chinese novelist born 1953 in Shanghai and a resident of the United States since 1988-has made a fetish of the word and the color red, not surprisingly, since he writes about Red China. The books reviewed here are Qiu Xiaolong, Death of a Red Heroine (2000), 464 pages, $14.00 A Loyal Character Dancer (2002), 360 pages, $14.00 When Red Is Black (2004), 320 pages, $13.00, all published in New York by Soho Crime and A Case of Two Cities (2006), 320 pages, $13.95 Red Mandarin Dress (2007), 320 pages, $13.95 The Mao Case (2009), 304 pages, $13.99, all published in New York by Minotaur Books. Every Man presents a series of interwoven narratives about fascism that do not echo the dominant stories that have been told and retold since the end of the Second World War. | more… The main characters are not Jews they are neither religious, nor do they spout Marx, Engels, or Rosa Luxemburg. Like Frank’s Diary, Fallada’s Every Man alerted readers around the world to the corrosive force of fascism and the extraordinary things that happen to people in hiding. Frank’s story was sentimentalized on stage and in the Hollywood movie, but the book itself resonated-it still does-with gritty realism and the kinds of details that just will not die.… That same year, 1947, saw the publication of Every Man Dies Alone, the last novel to be written by Hans Fallada, the lost man of twentieth-century Germany literature. In The Diary of a Young Girl-one of the most touching books ever written about life under fascism-Dutch teenager Anne Frank observed, “Extraordinary things happen to people who go into hiding.” Published in 1947 with an introduction by Eleanor Roosevelt, Frank’s diary awakened the world to the daily lives of Jews hoping to escape concentration camps and gas ovens.
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