A novel by M.J. Hydara
Songs of Dust and Water
Who holds the key, who pays, and who decides.
In Madina, Talib would rather fill a notebook with drawings of machines than sit at his father’s loom, and his sister’s nursing fee is due. When a foreign fund builds a plant of glass and steel beside the village, he signs on.
Ten years later and six hundred kilometres south, Kadiatou draws bitter water from the well the women of her family have always kept. Help arrives again, with money and a machine. Before anyone signs, she wants to know who will hold the key.
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