Cockroaches
Mukasonga, Scholastique2016
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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.
Main title:
Cockroaches / Scholastique Mukasonga ; translated from the French by Jordan Stump.
Author:
Mukasonga, Scholastique, authorStump, Jordan, 1959-, translator
Edition:
First Archipelago Books edition.
Imprint:
Brooklyn, NY : Archipelago Books, 2016.
Collation:
165 pages ; 18 cm
Notes:
Translated from the French.
ISBN:
9780914671534 (pbk)
Dewey class:
967.5710431
LC class:
DT450.443.M8513
Local class:
967.571
Language:
EnglishFrench
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Subject:
Mukasonga, ScholastiqueGenocide -- Rwanda -- History -- 20th centuryRwanda -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 20th centuryTutsi (African people) -- Crimes against -- Rwanda -- History -- 20th centuryHutu (African people) -- Rwanda -- Politics and government -- 20th centuryRwanda -- History -- Civil War, 1994 -- AtrocitiesHistory
BRN:
1841944
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