![]() ![]() ![]() None.Īnother thing that struck me was the darkness. The thing that struck me first in the story was that all rescue attempts in the five previous collapses of the San José mine were unsuccessful. The reader, Henry Leyva, who switched naturally between English and Spanish (for names mostly), was so clear and dramatic that I’ll keep an eye open for his name the next time I buy an audio book. I listened to the book (11 CDs) while driving to and from Idaho in July. Knowing the outcome didn’t spoil the suspense of the book for me because the author told the inside story, starting with how the miners happened to have jobs in that mine and what they did earlier that day. On the news here in the States, the story touched me so much that I felt compelled to pray for them and to record updates on their status. Deep Down Dark, by Héctor TobarĪs you know, a mine in Chile collapsed on August 5, 2010, and trapped 33 miners in a tunnel more than 2000 feet underground with only three days’ supply of food. August’s book review is on Héctor Tobar’s true story, Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free. ![]()
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