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.