Wednesday 13 April 2022

Out of silence


Original Title: Desde el silencio: Cuarenta años después


Format: 172 pages, Kindle Edition


Published: June 11, 2019 by Amazon Crossing


Memoir


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I ended up reading this for bookclub. I needed a book set in South America. Though I wish I had found Miracle in the Andes in English instead.




It was a novella. So it was short. And still only half was about the crash. I mean sure maybe I do not want to know how exactly they ate the dead, but still, the whole Andes part is the scary and interesting part. Now I never felt the danger cos it jumped in time and just meh.




And the second half was about him talking about his family, about the girl he found. His being philosophical. Him thinking of numerology, you know, fillers.




It did make me want to read that famous book though





It’s the unfathomable modern legend that has become a testament to the resilience of the human spirit: the 1972 Andes plane crash and the Uruguayan rugby teammates who suffered seventy-two days among the dead and dying. It was a harrowing test of endurance on a snowbound cordillera that ended in a miraculous rescue. Now comes the unflinching and emotional true story by one of the men who found his way home.




Four decades after the tragedy, a climber discovered survivor Eduardo Strauch’s wallet near the memorialized crash site and returned it to him. It was a gesture that compelled Strauch to finally “break the silence of the mountains.”




In this revelatory and rewarding memoir, Strauch withholds nothing as he reveals the truth behind the life-changing events that challenged him physically and tested him spiritually, but would never destroy him. In revisiting the horror story we thought we knew, Strauch shares the lessons gleaned from far outside the realm of rational learning: how surviving on the mountain, in the face of its fierce, unforgiving power and desolate beauty, forever altered his perception of love, friendship, death, fear, loss, and hope.


11 comments:

  1. I think that I saw a movie about these events. Horrible situation. Too bad this story had so much filler.

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    1. It do want to read that other book to get the true scope of things

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  2. Oh nice that it made you want to read the book

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  3. You found one. Sorry it wasn't that great.

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    1. I thought I had more time and then I got the email and was all damn this week?! So I had to hurry

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  4. Ah, book club book. I was thinking this didn't look like one you would usually read, now it makes sense!

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    1. Haha, yes it was a quick fix. I meant to find a romance ;I)

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  5. I swore I commented on this...maybe on mine.
    But yes. I am curious about the famous book too.

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