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Cockroaches / Scholastique Mukasonga ; translated from the French by Jordan Stump

Catalog Data

Author:
Mukasonga, Scholastique  Search this
Translator:
Stump, Jordan 1959-  Search this
Subject:
Mukasonga, Scholastique  Search this
Physical description:
165 pages ; 18 cm
Type:
Biography
Autobiographies
History
Place:
Rwanda
Date:
2016
21st century
20th century
Civil War, 1994
Notes:
AFA copy 39088019016377 gift of Janet Stanley.
Summary:
"Imagine being born into a world where everything about you--the shape of your nose, the look of your hair, the place of your birth--designates you as an undesirable, an inferior, a menace, no better than a cockroach, something to be driven away and ultimately exterminated. Imagine being thousands of miles away while your family and friends are brutally and methodically slaughtered. Imagine being entrusted by your parents with the mission of leaving everything you know and finding some way to survive, in the name of your family and your people. Scholastique Mukasonga's Cockroaches is the story of growing up a Tutsi in Hutu-dominated Rwanda--the story of a happy child, a loving family, all wiped out in the genocide of 1994. A vivid, bittersweet depiction of family life and bond in a time of immense hardship, it is also a story of incredible endurance, and the duty to remember that loss and those lost while somehow carrying on. Sweet, funny, wrenching, and deeply moving, Cockroaches is a window onto an unforgettable world of love, grief, and horror" --Provided by publisher.
Topic:
Women authors, Black  Search this
Genocide--History  Search this
Tutsi (African people)--Crimes against--History  Search this
Hutu (African people)--Politics and government  Search this
Ethnic relations  Search this
History  Search this
Atrocities  Search this
Data Source:
Smithsonian Libraries
EDAN-URL:
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