A review by jmooremyers
Deep Down Dark: The Untold Stories of 33 Men Buried in a Chilean Mine, and the Miracle That Set Them Free by Hector Tobar
4.0
favorite passages:
"Once, Monica strode across the dry, dusty surface of the mountain in her sleep. Though they are filled with tears, her eyes are open this morning and she is fully awake and alert and present for the first time in seventeen days, watching the camp and its wives and girlfriends and brothers and sons speak, their breath visible in the air of a morning just turning to light." [page 167]
"They are famous now, yes, but that heady sense of fullness that fame gives you, that sense of being at the center of everything, will disappear quicker than they could possibly imagine." [page 243]
"From all these strangers, Luis does not get the sense that they think he's a hero, necessarily, or that they're in awe of him. Rather, he understands that it's as if he and these strangers had lived something together: a shared experience with him in the mine and them on the outside. What he feels from these strangers is the gratitude of people who've been given a true and hopeful story, a timeless legend born of their own time, in a humble country in the shadow of the Andes." [page 302]
"Once, Monica strode across the dry, dusty surface of the mountain in her sleep. Though they are filled with tears, her eyes are open this morning and she is fully awake and alert and present for the first time in seventeen days, watching the camp and its wives and girlfriends and brothers and sons speak, their breath visible in the air of a morning just turning to light." [page 167]
"They are famous now, yes, but that heady sense of fullness that fame gives you, that sense of being at the center of everything, will disappear quicker than they could possibly imagine." [page 243]
"From all these strangers, Luis does not get the sense that they think he's a hero, necessarily, or that they're in awe of him. Rather, he understands that it's as if he and these strangers had lived something together: a shared experience with him in the mine and them on the outside. What he feels from these strangers is the gratitude of people who've been given a true and hopeful story, a timeless legend born of their own time, in a humble country in the shadow of the Andes." [page 302]