The Mountain that Eats Men

• A stunning blend of travel writing, memoir, history and reportage, revealing life on the slopes of the Cerro Ricco, known as the ‘mountain that eats men’.a
  

•Follows the story of a child (Alicia) and her family to illuminate a wider narrative of poverty, greed and the legacies of colonialism. Alicia is a trope for the postcolonial generation and its struggle.

•The Mountain that Eats Men is also the story of the minerals mined at the Cerro Rico, where they move around the world and how some of them end up in our homes and hands.

•Author is winner of the European Press Prize (2015), best-selling author in his native Spain, he has recently been compared by El País to Ryszard Kapuscinski and described as ‘one of Spanish journalism’s best-kept secrets’.

•Beautifully written, for fans of How Green Was My Valley and writing about mountains, e.g. Robert Macfarlane and Robert Twigger