Alternating between reportage, portrait vignettes, interviews, travelogues, and folk narratives, with a writing style that is at times infused with anger, pain, irony, and at other times with humor, Galeano pays tribute to the courage and determination of those who never stopped believing in human dignity and fought for it.

"Days and Nights of Love and War" is perhaps the only autobiographical book by the iconic Uruguayan author, a kind of "conversation with his memory" as he himself characteristically says.