flamboyant novel, African spirit

flamboyant novel, African spirit

Saint Mr. Baly (Paperback)

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Here is a profound and powerful novel where we find most of the thought of Williams Sassine, its desire for Africa to return to his roots and take its destiny in hand: solidarity in poverty and adversity, rejection of fate, return to the traditions and ancestral beliefs ...

A retired man, refusing selfish comfort of a retirement village, finds its reason for living in the building of a school for the needy.

Humanity and solidarity federated by the project, the sense of responsibility on the shoulders of Mr. Baly, its refusal to consider poverty as inevitable face off against the pitfalls, obstacles and conspiracies of all kinds, in malice, to meanness, jealousy, and the basest behavior ...

This fight for the light is an opportunity for Mr. Baly and his family to rediscover the virtues of the African spirit.

Human and spiritual work, a unique book!

Some excerpts:

François ° sest dragged us up to watch us work; as I write, I tell lentends Fati that life is beautiful and that if all men knew, the earth would be a paradise.

° Mohamed was beside me all by the hour; he spoke only of my trip and asked me to board a plane if we could see a sudden all men. He had the air disappointed when I told him no.

° I know, 'he continued after a sharp exhalation, that this is difficult to give like that, a sudden, a father supposed to be omnipresent, omnipotent and omniscient. But first First of believing in ourselves and our eyes spiritually to return to the earth, sky, nature, all these beautiful and fertile expanses that carry within them the imprint dune infinite power. This must be done, as our ancestors who sagenouillaient before the gods of the sun, rain, harvest, lightning, forest.

° No this is not so: our God is not surrounded by small winged angels and invisible but very real wonderful creations that have always helped us out of our solitude and constantly remind us His eternity and power. One day he will live all our schools Contemplate the sunrise, the quiet majesty of a mountain, the mysterious and wild side of a forest, the friendly rumble dune sea, the pale beauty of the moon, limperturbable serenity of a desert

° Good people, in truth, were happy to see their poor, for since their adoption by the old teacher, our city had virtually lost its soul and one divined in the mine concerned about our citizens a troubled conscience, their small daily alms apparently enough to appease.

° Pale Evening Star, listen to me, you know I never left anything nai; it may be that I look like this man buried alive, scratching at random across the land around it to reach the light at the risk of getting run over ... The good is definitely there as a sun that burns my heart, massive and bright, and even if I sweat unnecessarily thousand times, I will take and I will sow with my school ... But, my dear, you know me, I will like you, every day I will shine even sils do not see me and every night I will come to them like you mimposer by my brilliance. And when this is over, I'll leave them the greatest and most beautiful school then I will follow you to go home

° On my hunted, all by the hour, mosque, doctor; perhaps this is better so, because the only temple worthy of our God is deep in ourselves and in all places where we will decide to fight at night.

° It gives a terrible responsibility to feel needed, and a great joy to be contribute to the harmony of the world.

° The grain of dust that I collect every day helped me better than my resentment, out of my hell; and if God exists, I know now that his first desire is not to make me seek him he will always know where and when we meet but to learn to make ourselves useful in the smallest of our daily actions.

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