The Gurugu Pledge - Couverture souple

Ávila Laurel, Juan Tomás

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1908276940 ISBN 13 : 9781908276940

Editeur : And Other Stories, 2017

Synopsis

From the author of the 2015 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize-shortlisted

By Night the Mountain Burns. On Mount Gurugu, overlooking the Spanish enclave of Melilla on the North African coast, desperate migrants gather before attempting to scale the city s walls and gain asylum on European soil. Inspired by first-hand accounts, Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel has written an urgent novel, by turns funny and sad, bringing a distinctly African perspective to a major issue of our time.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel was born in 1966 in Equatorial Guinea. The Gurugu Pledge is his second novel to appear in English, and follows his 2015 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize-shortlisted debut By Night The Mountain Burns, which was based on his memories of growing up on the remote island of Annobón. He made headlines in 2011 by embarking on a hunger strike, in an anti-government protest. He now lives exiled in Barcelona.

Jethro Soutar is a translator of Portuguese and Spanish. His translation of Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel s By Night the Mountain Burns was shortlisted for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize, and he has translated crime fiction from Argentina and Brazil for Bitter Lemon Press. He is a co-founder of Ragpicker Press and co-editor of The Football Crónicas.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: And Other Stories
• Date d'édition: 2017
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1908276940
• ISBN 13: 9781908276940
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 240
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