My favorite book

My favorite book is Santa María de las Flores Negras. This book was written by Hernán Rivera Letelier in 2002.

This book tells a true story that occurred in Chile in 1907 in Iquique. That year came to Iquique thousands of miners demanding higher wages. They stayed in school Iquique while getting their demands.

I like this book, because is a true story of my country, also it is very well written, researched and told. I like because the writer was miner, so he write about his experience, about all he listened. Maybe the book is interesting because he talk about a situation that he knows, , that he lived.

"It is risky, put together history and fiction is like walking the edge ... but it is a challenge for an artist. I think I did ... I am proud to have rescued the history of nitrate that was forgotten." (Hernán Rivera Letelier).

This book is described by amazon:

Under the burning mid-December sun of 1907, a throng of saltpeter miners, women and children, inhabitants of the pampa salitrera set out on the long walk to Iquique their goal to demand better work and life conditions. Along the way friendships were forged, lovers were found, quarrels fought, but no one could ever have imagined what awaited them once they reached the harbor city.