The Gurugu Pledge

by Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel, Jethro Soutar (Translator)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781908276957
Publisher:	And Other Stories Publishing
Publication date:	08/24/2017
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	224
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

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.