Héctor Tobar
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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, journalist Héctor Tobar received exclusive access to the miners and their tales, and in The 33, 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...
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Araceli is the last of three live-in maids in the Torres-Thompson house, where recession has taken its toll, both on two previous maids no longer employed, and the Torres-Thompson marriage. Financial pressure causes discord between the parents, resulting in fights the children shouldn't hear. Then one morning after one of those fights, Araceli wakes up to a house empty--except for the children.
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The great panoramic social novel that Los Angeles deserves-a twenty-first-century, West Coast Bonfire of the Vanities by the only writer qualified to capture the city in all its glory and complexity With The Barbarian Nurseries, Héctor Tobar gives our most misunderstood metropolis its great contemporary novel, taking us beyond the glimmer of Hollywood and deeper than camera-ready crime stories to reveal Southern California life as it really is,...