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Football in Sun and Shadow

  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • ISBN: 9780241355350

  • Length: 272  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 13mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 168g

  • RRP: £9.99

Football in Sun and Shadow

'Football is a pleasure that hurts'

This unashamedly emotional history of football is a homage to the romance and drama, spectacle and passion of a 'great pagan mass'. Through stories of superstition, heartbreak, tragedy, luck, heroes and villains, those who lived for football and those who died for it, Eduardo Galeano celebrates the glory of a game that - however much the rich and powerful try to control it - still retains its magic.

'The Uruguayan whose writing got right to the heart of football ... readers were never in doubt of the warmth of the blood running through his veins' Guardian

'Galeano can run rings round our glamorous football intelligentsia' When Saturday Comes

'Stands out like Pele on a field of second-stringers' New Yorker

  • Imprint: Penguin Classics

  • ISBN: 9780241355350

  • Length: 272  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 13mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 168g

  • RRP: £9.99

Reviews

  • Galeano can run rings round our glamorous football intelligentsia.

    When Saturday Comes

  • Stands out like Pele on a field of second-stringers.

    New Yorker

  • Galeano has a style of a great left half. He constantly switches the direction of play. His observations are acute. He delivers with an air of insouciance which cannot mask his mastery

    Herald

  • Uplifting, reckless, ironic, impassioned... sparkles with supple imagery and a fine dry wit.

    Independent

  • Deeply humane . . . he has produced literature that will endure, monuments to the imagination

    Toby Green, Independent

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About the Author

Eduardo Galeano

Eduardo Galeano is one of Latin America's most distinguished writers. He is the author of the three-volume Memory of Fire; Open Veins of Latin America; Soccer in Sun and Shadow; The Book of Embraces; Walking Words; Upside Down; and Voices in Time. Born in Montevideo in 1940, he lived in exile in Argentina and Spain for years before returning to Uruguay. His work has been translated into twenty-eight languages. He is recipient of many international prizes.

Eduardo Galeano

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