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Alfa Ndiaye is a Senegalese man who, never before having left his village, finds himself fighting as a so-called "Chocolat" soldier with the French army during World War I. When his friend Mademba Diop, in the same regiment, is seriously injured in battle, Diop begs Alfa to kill him and spare him the pain of a long and agonizing death in No Man's Land. Unable to commit this mercy killing, madness creeps into Alfa's mind as he comes to see this refusal...
Author
Series
Livre de poche volume 30239
Publisher
Éditions Anne Carrière
Pub. Date
[2003]
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"Salie vit en France. Son frère, Madické, rêve de l'y rejoindre. Mais comment lui expliquer la face cachée de l'immigration, lui qui voit la France comme une terre promise où réussissent les footballeurs sénégalais, où vont se réfugier ceux qui, comme Sankèle, fuient leur destin tragique? Comment empêcher Madické et ses camarades de laisser courir leur imagination, quand l'homme de Barbès, de retour au pays, gagne en notabilité, escamote...
Author
Publisher
Éditions du Seuil
Pub. Date
[2018]
Description
One morning of the Great War, Captain Armand whistles the attack against the German enemy. The soldiers rush forward. In their ranks, Alfa Ndiaye and Mademba Diop, two Senegalese riflemen among all those who fight then under the French flag. A few meters after having sprung from the trench, Mademba falls, wounded to death, under the eyes of Alfa, his childhood friend, he more than a brother. Alfa finds himself alone in the madness of the great massacre,...
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