<DIV><I>Genesis</I>, the first volume in Eduardo Galeano&#8217;s <I>Memory of Fire</I> trilogy, is both a meditation on the clashes between the Old World and the New and, in the author&#8217;s words, an attempt to &#8220;rescue the kidnapped memory of all America.&#8221; It is a fierce, impassioned, and kaleidoscopic historical experience that takes us from the creation myths of the Makiritare Indians of the Yucatan to Columbus&#8217;s first, joyous moments in the New World to the English capture of New York.</DIV>