A review by jonbrammer
God's Bits of Wood by Ousmane Sembène
4.0
God's Bits of Wood paints a complex picture of a society in upheaval. The French colonists in West Africa try to hang on to their power and crush the railroad strike of 1948. The young men and women of Senegal rebel against both the French and the traditional ways of their elders.
My one complaint is that the French seem to be nothing more than caricatures, and Isnard's wife's Lady Macbeth moment at the end of the novel is needlessly melodramatic.
My one complaint is that the French seem to be nothing more than caricatures, and Isnard's wife's Lady Macbeth moment at the end of the novel is needlessly melodramatic.