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A silent fury
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- Book Synopsis
- On March 10, 1920, in Pachuca, Mexico, the Compañìa de Santa Gertrudis-the largest employer in the region, and a subsidiary of the United States Smelting, Refining and Mining Company-may have committed murder. 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.
- About The Author
- Yuri Herrera's first novel to appear in English, Signs Preceding the End of the World, won the Best Translated Book Award and was chosen by The Guardian as one of 'The 100 Best Books of the 21st Century'. His second novel The Transmigration of Bodies was shortlisted for the Dublin Literary Award and his sci-fi inflected collection of stories Ten Planets was a finalist for the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize. He teaches at Tulane University, New Orleans.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781911508786
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- And Other Stories, (16 June 2020)
- Number of Pages
- 120
- Weight
- 133 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 198 x 129 x 10 mm
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