Cockroaches

Cockroaches

Imagine being born into a world where everything about youâ‚¬"the shape of your nose, the look of your hair, the place of your birthâ‚¬"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 Rwandaâ‚¬"the story of a happy child, a loving family, all wiped out in the genocide of 1994. A vivid, bitterwsweet 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.
Country USA
Brand Archipelago Books
Manufacturer Archipelago
Binding Paperback
Color Grey
ReleaseDate 2016-10-25
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780914671534

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