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By Night the Mountain Burns
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Dec 30, 2015 rated it really liked it
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By Night the Mountain Burns is written from the perspective of a child growing up on the Island Annobon, a province of Equitorial Guinea. The narrator doesn't reveal his name or any names of his family, but you know who they are by his descriptions.

The lives of the people on the island are hard, because they are dependent on the sea and the plantations for survival. If one thing goes wrong, the whole island suffers.

Through the eyes of the boy, the customs, traditions and religious practices of
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