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215 pages, Paperback
First published January 1, 1980


The dead sticks of the walls put out roots and gripped the earth and the cabins became fortresses. And the men, dressed in green, turned green like the leaves and chestnut like the colossal trunks. The vault of foliage would not allow the sun to enter and the grass did not grow down below, on the clean space that linked the houses. Not linked: separated them with yellow, as the link was made by the green.
Thus was born of Mayombe the guerrilla base