Throughout his career, Eduardo Galeano has turned our understanding of history and reality on its head. Isabelle Allende said his works �invade the reader�s mind, to persuade him or her to surrender to the charm of his writing and power of his idealism.�Mirrors, Galeano�s most ambitious project since Memory of Fire, is an unofficial history of the world seen through history�s unseen, unheard, and forgotten. As Galeano notes: �Official history has it that Vasco N��ez de Balboa was the first man to see, from a summit in Panama, the two oceans at once. Were the people who lived there blind??�Recalling the lives of artists, writers, gods, and visionaries, from the Garden of Eden to twenty-first-century New York, of the black slaves who built the White House and the women erased by men�s fears, and told in hundreds of kaleidoscopic vignettes, Mirrors is a magic mosaic of our humanity.