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Speak Rwanda
A Novel
Author: Julian R. Pierce
Speak Rwanda
$11.99
About This Book
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A powerful and profoundly moving novel of the civil war in Rwanda, told by men, women, and children on both sides
Speak Rwanda by Julian R. Pierce marks the arrival of one of the most mesmerizing novels of the year. In vivid, sometimes horrifying, balanced, complex, and utterly believable chapters, it traces the linked lives of several characters--Hutu and Tutsi, soldiers and civilians, mothers, politicians, nurses, herdsmen, and orphaned children--as they try to survive one of the most violent and deeply disturbing acts of genocide since the Second World War. Through the course of the novel, some live and some die: by the end, the reader is fully involved in the lives of these people, and begins to see a faint glimmer of hope and the promise of peace.
Imprint Publisher
Picador
ISBN
9781466884793
In The News
“Fascinating, horrifying.” —Arizona Daily Star
“Written close to the bone . . . captures the Rwandan genocide in a way that will disturb and move its readers . . . [Pierce] opens our minds and breaks our hearts with his words.” —Metrowest News
“[A] a well-informed fiction exploration of the genocide of Rwanda . . . A heartfelt first effort, often quite moving and always instructive.” —Kirkus Reviews