num_pages: 333
description: In 1947-48 the workers on the Dakar-Niger railway came out on strike. This novel is an imaginative evocation of how those long days affected the lives of people who lived along the hundreds of miles of track.
language: English
title: God's Bits of Wood
titlecomplete: God's Bits of Wood
genres: Politics, Senegal, African Literature, Africa, Literature, Novels, Classics, Historical Fiction, Fiction, France
ratings_count: 2762
places: Senegal
publisher: Heinemann