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`Burning with a quiet power and rage, The Mountain that Eats Men will move you to tears and to anger.' Mark Mann, author of The Gringo Trail `Izagirre's narrative of characters eking out a living amidst what, for many, ultimately became silver-lined tombs is deft, admirable, and haunting.' Kim MacQuarrie, author of Life and Death In the Andes `With echoes of Galeano's political ire and Salgado's immersive rawness, Izagirre has produced a gut-puncher of a book.' Oliver Balch, author of Viva South America! Praise for the Spanish Edition: `Extremely well written ... uses what appears to be a small, personal story to tell a much wider, more universal one... Like Kapuscinski, he finds the drop of water that reflects everything around it.' Martin Caparros, El Pais `[Shares] the spirit of Eduardo Galeano... but Izagirre gets closer to the ground.' Ricardo Martinez Llorca, Culturamas

[Shares] the spirit of Eduardo Galeano... but Izagirre gets closer to the ground. * Praise for the Spanish edition, Ricardo Martinez Llorca, Culturamas * Izagirre's narrative of characters eking out a living amidst what, for many, ultimately became silver-lined tombs is deft, admirable, and haunting. * Kim MacQuarrie, author of Life and Death In the Andes * Burning with a quiet power and rage, The Mountain that Eats Men will move you to tears and to anger. * Mark Mann, author of The Gringo Trail * Extremely well written ... uses what appears to be a small, personal story to tell a much wider, more universal one... Like Kapuscinski, he finds the drop of water that reflects everything around it. * Praise for the Spanish edition, Martin Caparros, El Pais * With echoes of Galeano's political ire and Salgado's immersive rawness, Izagirre has produced a gut-puncher of a book. * Oliver Balch, author of Viva South America! *

`With echoes of Galeano's political ire and Salgado's immersive rawness, Izagirre has produced a gut-puncher of a book. A powerful, important work that puts the human back into human rights.' Oliver Balch, author of Viva South America! `Izagirre brings to life the Cerro Rico, its history and the people who work its seams. Clear-sighted and unsentimental, yet burning with a quiet power and rage, The Mountain that Eats Men will move you to tears and to anger.' Mark Mann, author of The Gringo Trail `Explores the fascinating and tragic story of the exploitation of Potosi, one of the richest deposits of silver and tin on the planet. Izagirre's narrative of characters eking out a living amidst what, for many, ultimately became silver-lined tombs is deft, admirable, and haunting.' Kim MacQuarrie, author of Life and Death In the Andes Praise for the Spanish Edition: `Extremely well written ... uses what appears to be a small, personal story to tell a much wider, more universal one... Like Kapuscinski, he finds the drop of water that reflects everything around it.' Martin Caparros, El Pais `[Shares] the spirit of Eduardo Galeano - and also of Naomi Klein's Shock Doctrine... but Izagirre gets closer to the ground.' Ricardo Martinez Llorca, Culturamas

'Burning with a quiet power and rage, The Mountain that Eats Men will move you to tears and to anger.' Mark Mann, author of The Gringo Trail 'Izagirre's narrative of characters eking out a living amidst what, for many, ultimately became silver-lined tombs is deft, admirable, and haunting.' Kim MacQuarrie, author of Life and Death In the Andes 'With echoes of Galeano's political ire and Salgado's immersive rawness, Izagirre has produced a gut-puncher of a book.' Oliver Balch, author of Viva South America! Praise for the Spanish Edition: 'Extremely well written ... uses what appears to be a small, personal story to tell a much wider, more universal one... Like Kapuscinski, he finds the drop of water that reflects everything around it.' Martin Caparros, El Pais '[Shares] the spirit of Eduardo Galeano... but Izagirre gets closer to the ground.' Ricardo Martinez Llorca, Culturamas

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Ander Izagirre is a Spanish author, journalist and travel writer whose writing has appeared in National Geographic and Lonely Planet, as well as El País, El Correo and other publications. He has written extensively on Latin American issues, and was awarded the European Press Prize 2015 for his reports on war crimes in Colombia. Tim Gutteridge is a Scottish translator and editor, based in Cadiz, Andalusia, where he lives with his partner and their two children. He specializes in academic and literary translation, and his recent work includes The Swallow¸ a stage play by Catalan dramatist Guillem Clua. @TimG_translator

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