Rwanda means the universe A native's memoir of blood and bloodlines
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New York : St. Martin's Press, 2006.
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First edition.
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| Location | Call Number | Status |
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| Gilpin County Public Library - NONFICTION | 967.571 MUSHIKI | On Shelf |
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LC Subjects
Genocide -- Rwanda.
Hutu (African people) -- Rwanda -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
Mushikiwabo, Louise
Rwanda -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 20th century.
Rwanda -- History -- Civil War, 1994 -- Atrocities.
Rwanda -- History -- Civil War, 1994 -- Personal narratives.
Tutsi (African people) -- Crimes against -- Rwanda -- History -- 20th century.
Hutu (African people) -- Rwanda -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
Mushikiwabo, Louise
Rwanda -- Ethnic relations -- History -- 20th century.
Rwanda -- History -- Civil War, 1994 -- Atrocities.
Rwanda -- History -- Civil War, 1994 -- Personal narratives.
Tutsi (African people) -- Crimes against -- Rwanda -- History -- 20th century.
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Published
New York : St. Martin's Press, 2006.
Format
Book
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xvi, 367 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Notes
General Note
Includes index.
Description
"Louise Mushikiwabo is a Rwandan working as a translator in Washington when she learns that most of her family back home has been killed in a conspiracy meticulously planned by the state. First comes shock, then aftershock, three months of it, during which her worst fears are confirmed: The same state apparatus has duped millions of Rwandans into butchering nearly a million of their neighbors.".
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"Years earlier, her brother Lando wrote her a letter she never got until now. Urged on by it, she rummages into their farm childhood, and into family corners alternately dark, loving, and humorous. She searches for stray mementos of the lost, then for their roots. What she finds are those and more - hints, roots, of the 1994 crime that killed her family.
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Her narrative takes the reader on a journey from the days the world and Rwanda discovered each other back to the colonial period when pseudoscientific ideas about race put the nation on a highway bound for the 1994 genocide.".
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"Seven years of full-time collaboration by two writers - and the faith of family and friends - went into this emotionally charged work. Rwanda Means the Universe is at once a celebration of the lives of the lost and homage to their past, but it's no comfortable tribute. It's an expression of dogged hope in the face of modern evil."--BOOK JACKET.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Mushikiwabo, L., & Kramer, J. (2006). Rwanda means the universe: A native's memoir of blood and bloodlines (First edition.). St. Martin's Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Mushikiwabo, Louise and Jack Kramer. 2006. Rwanda Means the Universe: A Native's Memoir of Blood and Bloodlines. St. Martin's Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Mushikiwabo, Louise and Jack Kramer. Rwanda Means the Universe: A Native's Memoir of Blood and Bloodlines St. Martin's Press, 2006.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Mushikiwabo, Louise, and Jack Kramer. Rwanda Means the Universe: A Native's Memoir of Blood and Bloodlines First edition., St. Martin's Press, 2006.
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