books.google.fr - "God's Bits of Wood is a fictionalized account of the Dakar-Niger train strikes which took in the 1940s. The novel looks at both the political and personal sacrifices the strikers and their families made. The political power is portrayed here as the strikers try to win back pensions, annual paid vacations,...http://books.google.fr/books/about/God_s_bits_of_wood.html?hl=fr&id=-5jPSaS1lGkC&q=words&utm_source=gb-gplus-shareGod's bits of wood