gurugu-pledge

First published by And Other Stories
Sheffield – London – New Haven
www.andotherstories.org

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transported in any form by any means (electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise), without the prior written permission of the publisher of this book. The right of Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel to be identified as author of this work has been asserted in accordance with Section 77 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988.

This book is a work of fiction. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events or places is entirely coincidental.

ISBN: 978-1-908276-94-0
eBook ISBN: 978-1-908276-95-7

Editors: Stefan Tobler and Jethro Soutar; Proofreader: Sarah Terry; Typesetting and eBook by: Tetragon, London; Typefaces: Linotype Swift Neue and Verlag; Cover Design: Edward Bettison. Cover photograph: Samuel Aranda, reproduced courtesy of Panos Pictures.

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