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The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
October 2014
On Sale: October 6, 2014
320 pages
ISBN: 0374280606
EAN: 9780374280604
Kindle: B00J6TV17C
Hardcover / e-Book
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Non-Fiction
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. The entire world watched what transpired above-ground
during the grueling and protracted rescue, but the saga of
the miners' experiences below the Earth's surface—and the
lives that led them there—has never been heard until now. For Deep Down Dark, the Pulitzer Prize–winning
journalist Héctor Tobar received exclusive access to the
miners and their tales. These thirty-three men came to think
of the mine, a cavern inflicting constant and thundering
aural torment, as a kind of coffin, and as a church where
they sought redemption through prayer. Even while still
buried, they all agreed that if by some miracle any of them
escaped alive, they would share their story only
collectively. Héctor Tobar was the person they chose to
hear, and now to tell, that story. The result is a masterwork or narrative journalism—a
riveting, at times shocking, emotionally textured account of
a singular human event. Deep Down Dark brings to
haunting, tactile life the experience of being imprisoned
inside a mountain of stone, the horror of being slowly
consumed by hunger, and the spiritual and mystical elements
that surrounded working in such a dangerous place. In its
stirring final chapters, it captures the profound way in
which the lives of everyone involved in the disaster were
forever changed.
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