http://newhumanist.i2p/articles/2236/mirrors-stories-of-almost-everyone-by-eduardo-galeano
With Galeano less is always more: the vignettes allow the crystallisation of these histories – some forgotten, others familiar – with an economy that is impressive. Nevertheless, it is the dark cracks between the fragments that dazzle, the unsaid that clamours to be heard. And yet Mirrors is not Galeano at his best. At times the material – by turns indignant, humorous and sad – has the texture of offcuts hewn from Memory of Fire .