The Stone Breakers — Emmanuel Dongala

THE STONE-BREAKERS, set in an imagined contemporary African country is a

gripping novel told from a unique second person point-of-view of the 

uprising of a group of women stone crushers at a gravel pit, who rise up against

their corporate bosses to demand higher wages for their labor--a gruelling process

of break rocks down to gravel-size bits to be used as road surfacing for 

the expansion of the country's airport. What begins as a village protest

escalates to a state-wide rebellion that confronts the corrupt leadership and challenges the status quo set by the government and the mining corporations.

First published in 2010, this classic novel of labor resistance, is published for the 

first time in the English language, will draw comparisons to the works of Chinua

Achebe, Ben Okri and Imbolo Mbue.