Sapiens En Español

I’ve been reading Yuval Noah Harari’s bestselling book Sapiens in Spanish translation for language practice. This was inspired by Andres, one of the guides on Dreaming Spanish, doing videos on the book chapter-by-chapter. He is up through chapter 7 now as am I. Sapiens was originally published in Hebrew so if I were to read it in English it would still be in translation.

This is the largest book I’ve tried reading in Spanish to date. So far it’s going well — I don’t understand every word and don’t try to look them all up but I’m certainly getting the gist of his arguments. So far it is a very good popularization of an extremely wide sweep of human history but I don’t think it’s nearly as groundbreaking as a couple of books I’ve read in recent years with a similar theme: David Graeber and David Wengrow’s The Dawn of Everything, and James C. Scott’s Against The Grain.

Most of the books I read are history books so it makes sense for me to look for some in Spanish to read too. I’m thinking Eduardo Galeano might be next?