Days and Nights of Love and War

Days and Nights of Love and War is the personal testimony of one of Latin America’s foremost contemporary political writers. In this fascinating journal and eloquent history, Eduardo Galeano movingly records the lives of struggles of the Latin American people, under two decades of unimaginable violence and extreme repression. Alternating between reportage, personal vignettes, interviews, travelogues, and folklore, and richly conveyed with anger, sadness, irony, and occasional humor, Galeano pays loving tribute to the courage and determination of those who continued to believe in, and fight for, a more human existence.

Originally published in Cuba, Days and Nights of Love and War won the Casa de las Américas prize (1978).

The Lannan Foundation awarded the 1999 Cultural Prize for Freedom to Eduardo Galeano, in recognition of those “whose extraordinary and courageous work celebrates the human right to freedom of imagination, inquiry and expression.”

Eduardo Galeano is the author of Open Veins of Latin America, Memory of Fire Trilogy (American Book Award, 1989), Book of Embraces and Upside Down. Sandra Cisneros is the highly acclaimed author of The House on Mango Street (1991), Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories, My Wicked, Wicked Ways, Loose Woman: Poems, and Hairs: Pelitos.