Deogratias, A Tale of Rwanda

By - Stassen, Jean-Philippe

Floor - Floor 3

ISBN 10 - 1596431032

ISBN 13 - 9781596431034

Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.

Subject - Rwanda

Shelf No - 1

Call Number - 741.5944 STA

Physical Description - 79 pages : color illustrations ; 22 cm

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Deogratias is just a boy. Benina is just a girl. Teenagers just like teenagers everywhere. Only he is a Hutu, and she is a Tutsiso say their ID cards.We are in Rwanda in the days leading to a swift and gruesome genocide which the world will watch but do nothing to stop. In less than a hundred days, eight hundred thousand human beings will be hacked to death.Moment by moment, piece by piece, J.P. Stassen skillfully builds a masterpiece, an unforgettable tale that probes mans inhumanity to man. His eloquence, his storytelling power, and his sheer poetry elevate this harrowing story to the rank of a testimonial to one of the darkest chapters in recent human history.With great skill and understanding, Stassens Deogratias takes us back and forth in time, showing only before and after the killings and inexorably revealing the grip of madness and horror on one young boy and his country.Difficult, beautiful, honest, and heartbreaking, this is a masterwork by a major artist of our time.

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