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By Night the Mountain Burns | Juan Tomas Avila Laurel

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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 Tomas Avila Laurel was born in 1966 in Equatorial Guinea. By Night the Mountain Burns is based on his memories of growing up on the remote Annobon Island. He made headlines in 2011 by embarking on a hunger strike in an anti-government protest.

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Dilara

By Night the Mountain Burns | Juan Tomas Avila Laurel

About halfway-through this novel by a Avila Laurel, a writer from #EquatorialGuinea, and I am sucked in 💜

Photo of Annobón island, which I suspect is where the novel is set, from Wikipedia, where I read the following fury-inducing info ⬇

Dilara According to many different sources, there is evidence of large-scale dumping of toxic waste on the remote island of Annobón, at least during the 1980s and 1990s. The German edition of Der Spiegel on 28 August 2006 reported that the government of Equatorial Guinea sold permits to UK and US companies to bury 10 million metric tons of toxic waste and 7 million metric tons of radioactive waste on the island of Annobón. [...] 9mo

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By Night the Mountain Burns | Juan Tomas Avila Laurel

"As a child, I thought tobacco and brandy must be the most powerful substances known to man. It‘s easy to see why youngsters desire cigarettes and brandy when they see the strongest men in their communities making superhuman efforts to get them. Youngsters look up to such men and think the quickest way to be like them is to get tobacco and alcohol for themselves."

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