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Chargement... Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free (2014)par Héctor Tobar
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Not my usual sort of book, but this was a very well written and well researched book about the miners of the Chilean mine rescue 12 or so years ago. Thirty-three miners were stuck in the lower portion of a mine after a sudden collapse, communications were completely cut off, and they had very little food. But all 33 were rescued from the mine, many weeks later. You learn a little about Chile, a little about mining, and a lot about the men and their families. As I mentioned I don’t usually read this kind of book but I think the author (an LA Times journalist) did an excellent job. ( ) This accounting of the 2010 Chilean mine collapse that trapped 33 men under a rock the size of a skyscraper started off very slowly, so slowly that I was tempted to give up about 70 pages in. The author spends a lot of time telling about the lives of the miners before the disaster, which did not pique my interest. However, I prevailed, after talking to someone else in my book club, and glad I did. The story of the rescue is fascinating. My problem with the book is the dense text, sometimes whole pages without a new paragraph. Who does that? And why? And why didn't the author include diagrams and photos? The only photo is of the 33 men, at the beginning of the book, and I was constantly going back and forth to see which person of 33 he was talking about. Without Google searching and watching the documentary, I would have gotten a lot less out of this story. In August 2010 the San Jose mine outside of Copiapo, Chili collapsed , trapping 33 men in the bowels of the earth. They were stuck so far down, it took 18 days for rescuers to discover the men were all still alive. At that point, the world came together and rushed to try to pull the men out. No one was hopeful, a rescue of this magnitude had never been attempted. Hector Tobar's telling of the men's story is gripping. He writes with brutal honesty, of the lives of the men before, during and after the disaster. It is unimaginable to me how these men survived this ordeal. Their time spent in the mine (69 days) tested their resolve, their faith and the friendships that normally form in work places. There were passages and subject matter I felt were repeated too often and in some spots it dragged a bit for me. Thus I can't give it 5 stars. However, still a worthwhile read for those who like a great disaster/rescue story. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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5 aout 2010. En plein c ur du desert d'Atacama, une mine de cuivre s'effondre: 33 mineurs sont pris au piege a plus de 700 metres sous terre. Pendant 69 jours, le monde entier va retenir son souffle, guettant la moindre nouvelle de ceux qu'on appelle desormais les 33, admirant le courage des familles qui campent pres des lieux du drame, l'acharnement des sauveteurs. Et applaudissant a tout rompre ce jour d'octobre ou les mineurs sont remontes a la vie. Mais, ce qu'on ignore, c'est que dans leur cercueil mineral les 33 ont fait un pacte: ce qui s'est vraiment passe dans la mine doit rester secret. Pendant quatre ans, rien ne filtrera. Journaliste, romancier et fils d'immigres guatemalteques, Hector Tobar a su les convaincre de livrer leur histoire. Aujourd'hui, les 33 disent tout: la faim, la soif, la chaleur infernale, bien sur; l'angoisse, les prieres, l'extraordinaire solidarite qui nait de leur isolement; et puis, le premier contact avec l'exterieur, l'espoir qui renait et avec lui, paradoxalement, les premieres dissensions, les tensions, la violence. Mais toujours cette petite flamme: la fureur de survivre..." Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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