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Availability:In StockContributor:Scholastique Mukasonga, Mark Polizzotti (Translator)Publish date:2024-10-29Pages:135
Language:EnglishPublisher:Archipelago BooksISBN-13:9781953861948ISBN-10:1953861946UPC:9781953861948Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:World Literature, Political, WomenBook Topic:AfricaSize:6.70 x 5.30 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.2998Product ID:SCJDXQ4AQY
Sister Deborah
A sharp and playful critique of colonialism from the leading voice of French-Rwandan literature, animated by memories, archival specters, and powerful women "In sentences of great beauty and restraint, Mukasonga rescues a million souls from the collective noun 'genocide, ' returning them to us as individual human beings." -- Zadie Smith In a 4-part narrative brimming with historical asides,...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Archipelago BooksISBN-13:9781953861948ISBN-10:1953861946UPC:9781953861948Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:World Literature, Political, WomenBook Topic:AfricaSize:6.70 x 5.30 x 0.50 inchesWeight:0.2998Product ID:SCJDXQ4AQY
Scholastique Mukasonga was born in Rwanda in 1956. She settled in France in 1992, only two years before the brutal genocide of the Tutsi swept through Rwanda. Her groundbreaking books include: the debut novel Our Lady of the Nile, Cockroaches, Igifu, and National Book Award-nominated The Barefoot Woman, expertly translated by Jordan Stump. In 2021, she won the Simone de Beauvoir Prize for Women's...
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