"Women"... The swan song of the great Uruguayan writer Eduardo Galeano, a poet of memory, who passed away in April 2015, is a hymn to women. It is an anthology that the author himself worked on - he did not live to see it printed - with texts selected from his works spanning approximately forty years of literary creation, from "Vagamundo" (1973), "Memory of Fire" (1982), "The Book of Embraces" (1989), "Words Travel" (1993), "Upside Down" (1998), to "Mirrors" (2008) and "Children of the Days" (2012). It is not a simple, disordered collection of texts, but an organized composition that aims to highlight the multifaceted aspects of the female gender and to confirm how central a place women held in the thoughts and works of the great Uruguayan.

"Women" is Eduardo Galeano's final farewell to his readers, a hurried farewell, as he did not live to see his book printed before he left this world. At least he managed to prepare this anthology - a tribute to Women, who held such a central place in his thoughts, works, and life in general. With his characteristic poetic prose, he speaks of women who left their mark on history, retrieves from oblivion collective achievements of women, talks about the roots of misogyny, about women who defied the dominant male interpretation of reality. And just like the woman with whom the book begins, Scheherazade from "One Thousand and One Nights," who tells stories to the king to avoid being killed, so does Galeano, a magician of language, narrate his stories so that we do not let memory die, because memory builds the future.