and a joy for the body that plays it"-exquisitely rendered in the magical stories of Soccer in Sun and Shadow.Įduardo Galeano (1940-2015) was one of Latin America's most distinguished writers.
Soccer is a game that bureaucrats try to dull and the powerful try to manipulate, but it retains its magic because it remains a bewitching game-"a feast for the eyes. Galeano tells of the suicide of Uruguayan player Abdóorte, who shot himself in the center circle of the Nacional's stadium of the Argentine manager who wouldn't let his team eat chicken because it would bring bad luck and of scandal-riven Diego Maradona whose real crime, Galeano suggests, was always "the sin of being the best." yet soccer, Galeano cautions, "is a pleasure that hurts." Thus there is also heartbreak and madness. In Soccer in Sun and Shadow, Galeano takes us to ancient China, where engravings from the Ming period show a ball that could have been designed by Adidas to Victorian England, where gentlemen codified the rules that we still play by today and to Latin America, where the "crazy English" spread the game only to find it creolized by the locals.Īll the greats-PeléDi Sténo, Cruyff, Euséo, Puská Gullit, Baggio, Beckenbauer- have joyous cameos in this book. In this witty and rebellious history of world soccer, award-winning writer Eduardo Galeano searches for the styles of play, players, and goals that express the unique personality of certain times and places. He died in 2015.One of the greatest, magical, and most lyrical accounts of the beautiful game His work - including the celebrated Memory of Fire trilogy - has been translated into twenty-eight languages, and during his liftetime Galeano's achievements as a writer were recognised with many literary prizes, including the hugely prestigious Casa de las Americas award. Following his brief imprisonment during the Uruguayan military coup of 1973, Galeano fled the country: he lived in exile in Argentina and Spain for years before returning to Uruguay. He went on to work for various weekly newspapers and magazines, and in 1971 he published his first book, the bestselling Open Veins of Latin America. Born in Montevideo in 1940 to a modest middle-class Catholic family, Galeano published his first work - a political cartoon - in El Sol newspaper aged just fifteen. Synopsis: BRAND NEW, Exactly same ISBN as listed, Please double check ISBN carefully before ordering.Įduardo Galeano was a Uruguayan journalist, novelist and writer, widely held to be one of Latin America's most distinguished and admired literary figures.
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