By Night the Mountain Burns [Spanish]

by Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel

Book Overview

This novel tells of childhood on a remote island off the west African coast. Superstition dominates in dark times and the hard-pressed islanders sacrifice their possessions to the enraged ocean. What of their lives will they save?

Both lyrical and unsparingly truthful, this novel draws on oral storytelling to illuminate a little-known corner of Africa.

Juan Tom s vila Laurel was born in 1966 in Equatorial Guinea. By Night...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: Spanish
• ISBN: 1908276401
• ISBN13: 9781908276407
• Release Date: November 2014
• Publisher: And Other Stories
• Length: 290 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 4.9" x 7.7"