Table of Contents

1. In the Land of Fabulous Treasures
2. The Princess and the Baron
3. The Powder Keg
4. The Dumping Ground
5. The Devil

Promotional Information

The haunting story of Cerro Rico, a centuries old mining mountain on the verge of collapse.

About the Author

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

Reviews

[Shares] the spirit of Eduardo Galeano... but Izagirre gets closer to the ground.
*Praise for the Spanish edition, Ricardo Martínez Llorca, Culturamas*

Izagirre’s narrative of characters eking out a living amidst what, for many, ultimately became silver-lined tombs is deft, admirable, and haunting.
*Kim MacQuarrie, author of Life and Death In the Andes*

Burning with a quiet power and rage, The Mountain that Eats Men will move you to tears and to anger.
*Mark Mann, author of The Gringo Trail*

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.
*Praise for the Spanish edition, Martín Caparrós, El País*

With echoes of Galeano’s political ire and Salgado’s immersive rawness, Izagirre has produced a gut-puncher of a book.
*Oliver Balch, author of Viva South America!*