The Gold Seekers

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In The Gold Seekers (Los buscadores de oro, 1993)​ ​​Augusto Monterroso embarks on a journey​ ​in search of his most remote memories,​ ​stopping along the way to reflect on his current life​ ​as a citizen somewhere on the planet​ ​and the activity he chose to make sense of his path: writing​. ​As he puts it, “you start off in a small world,​ ​no matter where you happen to be born;​ ​it only grows bigger if you manage to leave the place​ ​where you have to leave in time,​ ​physically or with the imagination.”​ ​This book, abounding in images, invites the reader​ ​on an exploration of the writer’s personality,​ ​with his anxieties, interests and points of view​ ​described from the moment he became conscious​ ​of his individuality. With Monterroso’s narrative alchemy,​ ​The Gold Seekers transforms from an account of childhood​ ​into an intense novella, a living family portrait​ ​whose author and principal protagonist rediscovers​ ​the characters and emotions, both painful or happy,​ ​that formed a part of his life.