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Throughout his career, Eduardo Galeano has switched our knowledge of truth and history on its head. Isabelle Allende stated his functions “invade the reader’s brain, to convince her or him to submit to the appeal of his publishing and energy of his idealism.”Mirrors, Galeano’s most ambitious undertaking since Storage of Fire, is definitely an unofficial record of the planet viewed through history’s invisible, unheard, and overlooked. As Galeano notices: “Official background has it that Vasco Núñez de Balboa was the very first guy to determine, from the peak in Panama, both seas at the same time. Were the folks who resided there impaired??”Recalling the lifestyles of designers, authors, gods, and visionaries, in the Garden of Eden to twenty-first-century Ny, of the black slaves who designed the White House and the ladies removed by men’s worries, and informed in countless kaleidoscopic vignettes, Showcases is just a miraculous variety of our mankind.