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God's bits of wood. / Translated by Francis Price.
LIBRA - Special PQ3989.O87 B613 1976
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sembène, Ousmane, 1923-2007
- Series:
- African writers series ; 63.
- African writers series ; 63
- Standardized Title:
- Bouts de bois de Dieu. English
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Strikes and lockouts--Railroads--Africa, West--History--Fiction.
- Strikes and lockouts.
- Strikes and lockouts--Railroads.
- History.
- West Africa.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- History.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 245 pages ; 19 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- London : Heinemann, [1976]
- Summary:
- In 1947-48 the workers on the Dakar-Niger railway staged a strike. In this vivid, timeless novel, Sembene Ousmane envinces the color, passion, and tragedy of those formative years in the history of West Africa.
- Notes:
- Translation of Les bouts de bois de Dieu.
- An H-E-B Paperback.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy is 1985 reprint.
- ISBN:
- 0435900633
- 9780435900632
- OCLC:
- 3712154
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