Upside Down: A Primer for the Looking-Glass World by Eduardo Galeano

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From the author of the incomparable Memory of Fire trilogy, winner of the 1989 American Book Award, a bitingly funny, kaleidoscopic vision of the First World through the eyes of the Third.

In Upside Down Galeano offers a series of lesson plans and a "program of study" about out beleaguered planet. From a master class in "The Impunity of Power" to a seminar on "The Sacred Car," with tips along the way "How to Resist Useless Vices" and a declaration of "The Right to Rave," Galeano surveys a world unevenly divided between abundance and deprivation, carnival and torture, power and its lack.

We have accepted the "reality" we should reject, he teaches us, one where poverty kills, people are hungry, machines are more precious than humans, and children work from dark to dark.

Metropolitan Books, 2000, Soft Cover, 358pp, index, sources list.

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