In his book “Mirrors,” Eduardo Galeano retells the history of human civilization in his own way, condensing what he finds exciting, funny, and worthy of attention through brief, precise passages that give the reader the opportunity to connect with the events and facts he reads, as if history were resurrected before him. The author adopts a cornological path in narrating a history based on bitter paradoxes, and stops at cities, personalities, events, and inventions that constituted milestones in human history. This is how we see him moving lightly between various topics; Such as female circumcision, silkworms, beer, Santa Claus, tango, the torture instruments of the Inquisition. But through the illusion of dispersion, he somehow makes history more logical and full of bitter irony. With extreme selectivity and absolute freedom, Galeano, with his extensive knowledge, chooses the points that stand out to him that seemed to him pivotal in the path of humanity, specifically the forgotten events or people that the dominant narrative of history ignored and wanted to erase from collective memory, as if he was saying to the world: “See your true face reflected in... Mirror".
لماذا نخفي على الرجال الكثير من الأسرار؟ ربما لأننا نخفيها عن أنفسنا في البداية.. نحن وُلِدنا في مجتمع يتغير بطريقة أسرع من تخيلات الجميع، حاول الأهل استيعابنا بالقدر الكافي.. لكن الكثير من الحيرة والتشتت وربما «اللخبطة» كانت هي شعار المرحلة..
علاقات مشوهة، أحلام تقف في منتصف الطريق، وتصورات مشوشة عن أنفسنا، وبالتالي عن الرجل.. لذلك ربما نحتاج لإعادة اكتشاف الذات، ومصارحة أنفسنا بأسرارنا الخاصة والاستشفاء منها، ربما في تلك اللحظة يمكننا أن نخبر الجميع بكل شيء
After the enthusiastic revolutionaries attacked Hoshanak's house and burned musical instruments, books, and all the things they considered forbidden, he decided to leave Tehran, taking his wife, Rosa, his two sons, Sohrab and Beta, and the third daughter, Bahar, to settle in a distant village, hoping Preserving their intellectual freedom and their lives. But they soon find themselves caught up in the chaos of the 1979 Iranian Islamic Revolution sweeping the country.
The fates of all family members change, and they are divided between pain and memory, between the world of the living and the world of the dead, and the times, events, and narrative spaces that “Bahar” narrates intersect, mixing violence and brutality with mysticism, meditation, magic, and myths, invoking oral narrative traditions to confront cruelty with the power of imagination.
Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2020, Green Plum Tree's Rise is a fascinating journey through Persian history and mythology, woven in the style of magical realism, exploring the fate of hope and dream in Iran today.
