A silent fury : the El Bordo mine fire
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Contributors
Dillman, Lisa, translator.
Published
London : And Other Stories, 2020.
Physical Desc
104 pages ; 20 cm
Status
San Luis Obispo Library - Adult Nonfiction
363.11962 PBK
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363.11962 PBK
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Published
London : And Other Stories, 2020.
Format
Book
Language
English
Notes
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Translated from the Spanish.
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"The alert was first raised at six in the morning: a fire was tearing through the El Bordo mine. After a brief evacuation, the mouths of the shafts were sealed. Company representatives hastened to assert that "no more than ten" men remained inside the mineshafts, and that all ten were most certainly dead. Yet when the mine was opened six days later, the death toll was not ten, but eighty-seven. And there were seven survivors. A century later, acclaimed novelist Yuri Herrera has reconstructed a workers' tragedy at once globally resonant and deeply personal: Pachuca is his hometown. His work is an act of restitution for the victims and their families, bringing his full force of evocation to bear on the injustices that suffocated this horrific event into silence."--Amazon.com.
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