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.
Sur le mont Gourougou nous fait entrer dans l'intimité d'un groupe de migrants d'Afrique noire, attendant à la frontière entre le Maroc et Melilla de pouvoir passer en Europe. Un roman étonnant qui tient autant de la fable que du récit de survie le plus réaliste.
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