Héctor Tobar

33

Sprachen: Englisch. 21,6 cm / 14,0 cm / 2,0 cm ( B/H/T )

Buch (Softcover), 336 Seiten

EAN 9781250088949

Veröffentlicht Oktober 2015

Verlag/Hersteller St. Martins Press-3PL

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Beschreibung

Previously published as Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stroies of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free. The novel that inspired the film The 33 starring Lou Diamond Phillips, Cote de Pablo and Antonio Banderas. When the San José mine collapsed outside of Copiapó, Chile, in August 2010, it trapped thirty-three miners beneath thousands of feet of rock for a record-breaking sixty-nine days. After the disaster, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Héctor Tobar received exclusive access to the miners and their tales, and in Deep Down Dark, he brings them to haunting, visceral life. We learn what it was like to be imprisoned inside a mountain, understand the horror of being slowly consumed by hunger, and experience the awe of working in such a place-underground passages filled with danger and that often felt alive. A masterwork of narrative journalism and a stirring testament to the power of the human spirit, The 33: Deep Down Dark captures the profound ways in which the lives of everyone involved in the catastrophe were forever changed. A Finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award A Finalist for a Los Angeles Times Book Prize A New York Times Book Review Notable Book Selected for NPR's Morning Edition Book Club

Portrait

HÉCTOR TOBAR is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and a novelist. He is the author of The Barbarian Nurseries, Translation Nation, and The Tattooed Soldier. The son of Guatemalan immigrants, he is a native of Los Angeles, where he lives with his wife and three children.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Prologue: Cities in the Desert 3 Part I: BENEATH THE MOUNTAIN OF THUNDER AND SORROW 1. A Company Man 19 2. The End of Everything 29 3. The Dinner Hour 43 4. "I'm Always Hungry" 55 5. Red Alert! 73 6. "We Have Sinned" 85 7. Blessed Among Women 103 8. A Flickering Flame 121 9. Cavern of Dreams 139 Part II: SEEING THE DEVIL 10. The Speed of Sound 163 11. Christmas 173 12. Astronauts 187 13. Absolute Leader 207 14. Cowboys 217 15. Saints, Statues, Satan 229 16. Independence Day 237 17. Rebirth 249 Part III: THE SOUTHERN CROSS 18. In a Better Country 267 19. The Tallest Tower 273 20. Underground 283 21. Under the Stars 295 Acknowledgments 307