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By Night the Mountain Burns

✍ Scribed by Tomas, Juan; Laurel, Avila

Book ID
108117884
Publisher
And Other Stories Publishing
Year
2014
Tongue
en-GB
Weight
609 KB
Category
Fiction
ISBN-13
9781908276407

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✦ Synopsis

By Night the Mountain Burns recounts the narrator's childhood on a remote island off the West African coast, living with his mysterious grandfather, several mothers and no fathers. We learn of a dark chapter in the island's history: a bush fire destroys the crops, then hundreds perish in a cholera outbreak. Superstition dominates, and the islanders must sacrifice their possessions to the enraged ocean god. What of their lives will they manage to save? Whitmanesque in its lyrical evocation of the island, Ávila Laurel's writing builds quietly, through the oral rhythms of traditional storytelling, into gripping drama worthy of an Achebe or a García MÑrquez.

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