The haunting story of Cerro Rico, a centuries old mining mountain on the verge of collapse.
[Shares] the spirit of Eduardo Galeano... but Izagirre gets closer to the ground.
Izagirre’s narrative of characters eking out a living amidst what, for many, ultimately became silver-lined tombs is deft, admirable, and haunting.
Burning with a quiet power and rage,
The Mountain that Eats Men will move you to tears and to anger.
Extremely well written … uses what appears to be a small, personal story to tell a much wider, more universal one… Like Kapuscinski, he finds the drop of water that reflects everything around it.
With echoes of Galeano’s political ire and Salgado’s immersive rawness, Izagirre has produced a gut-puncher of a book.
Ander Izagirre is a Spanish author, journalist and travel writer whose writing has appeared in
National Geographic and
Lonely Planet, as well as
El País, El Correo and other publications. He has written extensively on Latin American issues, and was awarded the European Press Prize 2015 for his reports on war crimes in Colombia. Tim Gutteridge is a Scottish translator and editor, based in Cadiz, Andalusia, where he lives with his partner and their two children. He specializes in academic and literary translation, and his recent work includes
The Swallow¸ a stage play by Catalan dramatist Guillem Clua. @TimG_translator
Ander Izagirre is a Spanish author, journalist and travel writer whose writing has appeared in
National Geographic and
Lonely Planet, as well as
El País, El Correo and other publications. He has written extensively on Latin American issues, and was awarded the European Press Prize 2015 for his reports on war crimes in Colombia. Tim Gutteridge is a Scottish translator and editor, based in Cadiz, Andalusia, where he lives with his partner and their two children. He specializes in academic and literary translation, and his recent work includes
The Swallow¸ a stage play by Catalan dramatist Guillem Clua. @TimG_translator