Eduardo Galeano's Mirrors is a bawdy, subversive, and sometimes heartbreaking unofficial history of the world observed-and mirrored to us- through the eyes and voices of history's unseen, unheard, and forgotten.
With a fireside storyteller's sense of mischief, Galeano asks: Adam and Eve were black? How could our ancestor of long ago paint the caves so delicately? How could he? Or was it she? How would the Trojan War have been told by an anonymous soldier?
And he goes on asking, through five thousand years. Mirrors is a phantasmagoric mosaic of humanity.