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Scholastique Mukasonga pairs a girls’ school novel with memories of exile and a portrait of her mother. Gilbert Gatore asks how to narrate genocide through survivors and perpetrators. Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse follows memory and fractured ties across three generations between Rwanda and France. Fiction and testimony reveal everyday lives threatened by violence.
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Divisions grow at an elite girls' school, foreshadowing Rwanda's catastrophe.
Original title: Notre-Dame du Nil
Archipelago Books
Translated by Melanie Mauthner
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Memories of childhood and exile commemorate the author’s family murdered in the genocide.
Original title: Inyenzi ou les Cafards
A portrait of the author’s mother reconstructs women’s daily lives, knowledge and care under persecution.
Original title: La Femme aux pieds nus
Returning exile Isaro tries to understand the genocide by writing the story of Niko, forced into killing.
Original title: Le Passé devant soi
Three generations of a family divided by genocide attempt to rebuild ties between Rwanda and France.
Original title: Tous tes enfants dispersés
Autobiographical stories of hunger, survival and Rwanda’s lost world.
A story of Rwandan beliefs and their collision with Christian missionaries.
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