Juan Tomás' Public Reading: The Gurugu Pledge

5 Sep 2017

September the 6th – 7:00pm – Cork Central Library

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'.