Research Catalog

Title

One hundred days / Lukas Bärfuss ; translated from the German by Tess Lewis.

Author

Bärfuss, Lukas, 1971-

Publication

London : Granta, 2012.

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Details

Additional Authors

Lewis, Tess

Description

180 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

As snow falls outside his home in the Jura mountains, the Swiss former aid worker David Hohl - tells an old school friend how he witnessed the massacres in Kigali. A young idealist, David arrives in Rwanda in 1990 to work for the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation. He finds a life of postcolonial privilege and boredom, inhabited by expats who know little about Rwandans and cannot be bothered to learn the local language. Relief from boredom comes with civil war, David watches with excitement as troops march through Kigali; Agathe, the cosmopolitan Rwandan woman he has haplessly been courting, finally succumbs to his advances. But who is Agathe? Is she a Europeanised student, a daughter of African farmers, locked in an eternal struggle with nature, or is she a militant Hutu inciting murder from the back of a flatbed truck? And what is David's own role in the genocide?

Uniform Title

Hundert Tage. English

Alternative Title

Hundert Tage.

Subject

• 1990-1994
• Humanitarian assistance > Rwanda > Fiction
• Man-woman relationships > Fiction
• Rwanda > History > Civil War, 1990-1993 > Fiction
• Rwanda > History > Atrocities > Civil War, 1994 > Fiction
• Kigali (Rwanda) > Fiction

Genre/Form

• Erzählende Literatur
• Fiction
• History

Note

• "Winner of the Hans Fallada Prize"--Cover.

Language (note)

• Translated from the Swiss German.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 9781847084804 (pbk.)
• 184708480X (pbk.)

OCLC

• 794136985
• SCSB-11946732

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library