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By Eduardo Galeano

Genesis, the first volume in Eduardo Galeano s Memory of Fire trilogy, is both a meditation on the clashes between the Old World and the New and, in the author s words, an attempt to rescue the kidnapped memory of all America. It is a fierce, impassioned, and kaleidoscopic historical experience that takes us from the creation myths of the Makiritare Indians of the Yucatan to Columbus s first, joyous moments in the New World to the English capture of New York.