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Où s'adosse le ciel
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At the end of the 19th century, Bilal Seck completed a pilgrimage to Mecca and prepared to return to Saint-Louis, Senegal. A cholera epidemic decimated the region, but Bilal survived, much to the incredulity of a French doctor who sought to unlock the secrets of his immunity. All in vain. Bilal was already elsewhere, carried away by another story, the one he constantly chanted, a vast myth, intact within him, passed down through the great chain of storytelling that connected him to his ancestors. An odyssey that was that of the Egyptian people, then under the yoke of the Ptolemies, led by Unifer, high priest of Osiris, who cherished the dream of granting his people their freedom, leading them westward across the deserts to a promised land, a beautiful horizon, where the sky meets the sky... This path, Bilal, in turn, took, toward his own country." "Native, passing through Djenné, the red city, where the journey of Ounifer and his people was temporarily halted. From ancient Egypt to Senegal, David Diop delivers a masterful novel about a man who set out to rediscover his origins and the immemorial sources of his voice." -- Page 4 of the cover
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