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Gods Bits of Wood (African Writers Series)
by Sembene Ousmane
- Used
- Very Good
- Paperback
- Condition
- Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0435908928
- ISBN 13
- 9780435908928
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About This Item
Heinemann, 1987. Soft cover. Very Good. A clean, tight and unmarked copy.Tells the dramatic story of the 1947-8 strike on the Dakar-Niger railway. By the author of "Black Docker". About the Author: Sembene Ousmane, film director and writer, was born in Senegal and worked as a fisherman before attending l'Ecole de Ceramique at Marsassoum. He then worked as a plumber, a bricklayer and an apprentice mechanic in Dakar. After the war he became a docker and trade union leader in Marseilles, and out of this experience he wrote Le Docker Noir (1956). He had also published Oh Pays, mon Beau Peuple (1957), L'Harmattan (1964) and the collection of stories, Voltaique (1962), which was translated as God's Bits of Wood and appears in the African Writers Series (AWS). He has made several films including one of Le Mandat (translated as The Money Order with White Genesis AWS). His film of Xala met with a great success in the New York film festival.
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- Bookseller
- MAD HATTER BOOKSTORE
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 007086
- Title
- Gods Bits of Wood (African Writers Series)
- Author
- Sembene Ousmane
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0435908928
- ISBN 13
- 9780435908928
- Publisher
- Heinemann
- Place of Publication
- Westport, Connecticut, U.s.a.
- Date Published
- 1987
- Pages
- 336
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