By Night the Mountain Burns
- ISBN-10
- 190827641X
- ISBN-13
- 9781908276414
- Category
- Fiction
- Pages
- 275
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2014
- Author
- Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel
Description
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 Márquez.
Get the book
Other editions
Similar books
-
When These Mountains Burn
By David JoyWinner of the 2020 Dashiell Hammett Award for Literary Excellence in Crime Writing Acclaimed author David Joy returns with a fierce and tender tale of a father, an addict, a lawman, and the explosive events that come to unite them.
-
When the Purple Mountain Burns: A Novel
By Shouhua QiThis is an unprecedented first novel by a native son of Nanking, set during the first six days after the fall of the city to the Japanese imperial army in December of 1937.
-
The Gurugu Pledge: A Novel
By Juan Tomás Ávila LaurelInspired 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.
-
My Side of the Mountain
By Jean Craighead GeorgeYoung Sam Gribley spends a winter alone in the Catskills by living off the land.
-
Andal's Garland
By Helen BurnsIn eighth century India, Andal is born into a world where girls are married and with child by fourteen.
-
Fire on the Mountain
By Anita DesaiThroughout the hot, long summer, Nanda’s old, hidden dependencies and wounds come to the surface, ending, inevitably, in tragedy. Marvellous yet restrained, Fire on the Mountain speaks of the past and its unshakable hold over the present.
-
Summer by the River
By Debbie BurnsTidbit, who'd just settled on the floor around Myra's feet, let out a single bark as if in reminder that he was the dominant animal in the house, ... the screen door and onto the brick patio in her bare feet, allowing Buttercup to run.
-
Night of Fire: A Novel
By Colin ThubronAs the novel progresses, the tenants’ diverse stories take us through an African refugee camp, Greek Orthodox monasteries, and the cremation grounds of India. Haunting the edges of their lives are memories.
-
The Big Burn: Teddy Roosevelt and the Fire that Saved America
By Timothy EganThis e-book includes a sample chapter of SHORT NIGHTS OF THE SHADOW CATCHER.
-
A Court of Wings and Ruin
By Sarah J. MaasIn this thrilling third book in the #1 New York Times bestselling series from Sarah J. Maas, the earth will be painted red as mighty armies grapple for power over the one thing that could destroy them all.