, archival specters, and powerful women "In sentences of great beauty and restraint, Mukasonga rescues a million souls from the...... more

Evelyne Mukasonga’s memoir is a story of survival and forgiveness. The book describes the author’s happy childhood in...... more

Evelyne Mukasonga’s memoir is a story of survival and forgiveness. The book describes the author’s happy childhood in...... more

French-Rwandan literature "Mukasonga breathes upon a vanished world and brings it to life in all its sparkling multifariousness...... more

Mukasonga’s autobiographical stories rend a glorious Rwanda from the obliterating force of recent history, conjuring the noble...... more

upon them in pre-genocide Rwanda. Recording her memories of their life together in spare, wrenching prose, Mukasonga...... more

Mukasonga unsparingly resurrects the horrors of the Rwandan geocide while lyrically recording the quieter moments of...... more

Imagine Africa and its theme of "Revolution" is introduced by Georges Lory who opens the collection ... more

French - Mukasonga immerses us in a school for young girls, called Notre-Dame du Nil. The girls are sent to this high...... more