"The Century of the Wind" is the final part of Eduardo Galeano's iconic trilogy "Memory of Fire", an epic project that uses history and literature to recover and restore the fragmented memory of Latin America and the American continent as a whole. The Century of the Wind is the 20th century, which in the book begins in the year 1900 in the obscure village of San José de Gracia in Mexico, where its inhabitants are preparing for the end of the world. However, the end will not come; life goes on...

In the whirlwind of the century's memory, figures such as Emiliano Zapata, Pancho Villa, Charlie Chaplin, and Buster Keaton appear, as well as Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Oscar Niemeyer, Frida Kahlo, Carlos Gardel, Trotsky, Pelé and Garrincha, Kennedy, Fidel Castro and Che Guevara, Eva Perón, Ronald Reagan, Sandino, Julio Cortázar, Salvador Allende, Pinochet and the Mothers of the Plaza de Mayo, and above all the emblematic figure of Miguel Marmol, a symbol of a life that was a game with death; symbols of the 20th century in the Americas such as coffee, jazz, football, Coca-Cola, the poets of decline in Montevideo, the tango; the struggle of the peoples of Latin America against subjugation, a struggle for their survival, dignity, and freedom; the sad procession of dictators who sucked the wealth and blood of their people as active agents of their great protector, the United States. The whirlwind has hundreds of facets and tiles, all of which make up the recovered memory. However, history does not end: "The book and I know that the last page is also the first."