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Cockroaches / Scholastique Mukasonga ; translated from the French by Jordan Stump.

Title
Cockroaches / Scholastique Mukasonga ; translated from the French by Jordan Stump.
Author
Mukasonga, Scholastique
Publication
Brooklyn, NY : Archipelago Books, 2016.

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Additional Authors
Stump, Jordan, 1959-
Description
165 pages; 18 cm
Summary
"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. A vivid, bittersweet depiction of family life and bond in a time of immense hardship, it is also a story of incredible endurance, and the duty to remember that loss and those lost while somehow carrying on. Sweet, funny, wrenching, and deeply moving, Cockroaches is a window onto an unforgettable world of love, grief, and horror"--
Uniform Title
Inyenzi, ou Les cafards. English
Alternative Title
Inyenzi, ou Les cafards.
Subject
  • Mukasonga, Scholastique
  • 1900-2099
  • Genocide > Rwanda > History > 20th century
  • Tutsi (African people) > Crimes against > History > Rwanda > 20th century
  • Hutu (African people) > Rwanda > Politics and government > 20th century
  • Rwanda > Ethnic relations > History > 20th century
  • Rwanda > History > Atrocities > Civil War, 1994
  • Rwanda > Biography
Genre/Form
  • Autobiographies
  • Biographies
  • History
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
ISBN
  • 9780914671534
  • 0914671537
LCCN
^^2016025248
OCLC
  • 934676567
  • SCSB-11732851
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library