Deep Down Dark is the novel that inspired the film The 33 starring
Lou Diamond Phillips, Cote de Pablo and Antonio Banderas.
When the San José mine collapsed outside of Copiapó, Chile, in August
2010, it trapped thirty-three miners beneath thousands of feet of rock
for a record-breaking sixty-nine days. After the disaster, Pulitzer
Prize-winning journalist Héctor Tobar received exclusive access to the
miners and their tales, and in Deep Down Dark, he brings them to
haunting, visceral life. We learn what it was like to be imprisoned
inside a mountain, understand the horror of being slowly consumed by
hunger, and experience the awe of working in such a place-underground
passages filled with danger and that often felt alive. A masterwork of
narrative journalism and a stirring testament to the power of the human
spirit, The 33: Deep Down Dark captures the profound ways in which the
lives of everyone involved in the catastrophe were forever changed.
A Finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award
A Finalist for a Los Angeles Times Book Prize
A New York Times Book Review Notable Book
Selected for NPR's Morning Edition Book Club