Walking Words
Eduardo Galeano, Mark Fried (Illustrator), Jose Francisco Borges (Illustrator), Mark FriedBooks.org participates in affiliate programs including Bookshop.org and the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program. We may earn a commission from qualifying purchases made through links on this page, at no additional cost to you.
Overview
In Walking Words world-renowned author Eduardo Galeano draws on the folklore of rural and urban Latin America to discover and retell "the stories of ghouls and fools that Id like to write." These tales are beautifully illustrated by his collaborator, the Brazilian woodcut artist José Francisco Borges, and become testaments to the power of stories to make and remake and enchant the world."Striking collaboration between Galeano's tales rooted in the oral tradition and Brazilian artist Josâe Francisco Borges' woodcuts in the cordel tradition is given a rich third dimension by Fried's imaginative translation of Palabras andantes. Readers will have to look elsewhere for introductory material, but in effect the book introduces and explains itself"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
Synopsis
From the author of Memory of Fire, a brilliant feat of storytelling in the tradition of Italo Calvino's Italian Folktales.
Publishers Weekly
According to PW, "Galeano brings intense lyricism, subversive humor and spellbinding storytelling to this assemblage of tales, fables and parables." Woodcuts by Jos Francisco Borges. (Jan.)