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We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda (Audio CD - Narrated by Jeff Cummings) - Philip Gourevitch, Jeff Cummings
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda (Audio CD - Narrated by Jeff Cummings)
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"Hutus kill Tutsis, then Tutsis kill Hutus--if that's really all there is to it, then no wonder we can't be bothered with it," Philip Gourevitch writes, imagining the response of somebody in a country far from the ethnic strife and mass killings of Rwanda. But the situation is not so simple, ... show more
"Hutus kill Tutsis, then Tutsis kill Hutus--if that's really all there is to it, then no wonder we can't be bothered with it," Philip Gourevitch writes, imagining the response of somebody in a country far from the ethnic strife and mass killings of Rwanda. But the situation is not so simple, and in this complex and wrenching book, he explains why the Rwandan genocide should not be written off as just another tribal dispute. The "stories" in this book's subtitle are both the author's, as he repeatedly visits this tiny country in an attempt to make sense of what has happened, and those of the people he interviews. These include a Tutsi doctor who has seen much of her family killed over decades of Tutsi oppression, a Schindleresque hotel manager who hid hundreds of refugees from certain death, and a Rwandan bishop who has been accused of supporting the slaughter of Tutsi schoolchildren, and can only answer these charges by saying, "What could I do?" Gourevitch, a staff writer for the New Yorker, describes Rwanda's history with remarkable clarity and documents the experience of tragedy with a sober grace. The reader will ask along with the author: Why does this happen? And why don't we bother to stop it? --Maria Dolan, Amazon.com
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ISBN: 9781433203480 (1433203480)
Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
Pages no: 200
Edition language: English
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Ms. Margie
Ms. Margie rated it
Early in the book Gourevitch addresses the reader: "Perhaps, in examining this extremity with me, you hope for some understanding, some insight, some flicker of self-knowledge - a moral, or a lesson, or a clue about how to behave in this world: some such information. I don't discount the possibil...
Reading Junkie
Reading Junkie rated it
5.0
I'm really glad I read this book after reading "Killing Pablo" by Mark Bowden. This account of the genocide in Rwanda was everything I wanted it to be. It gave a concise, relevant history of Rwanda which explained how the various factions arose and the Hutu Power party was able to exploit the mass...
paulwhite
paulwhite rated it
1.0 We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda
I thought it would be better. The book is badly written and edited, the author had not enough sources - i don't know if he interviewed the right people. And the most important- it is too self centered. I wanted an objective insight into true account, instead I received fixed opinions of author. It w...
Bright and Shiny Shiny
Bright and Shiny Shiny rated it
5.0
I hate to say I had no idea this had gone on until I read the book when it first hit paperback. Wonderful book about an absolutely horrendous event. At the time I wondered why this hadn't been all over the news but it is a book about dark-skinned people in another continent so why should americans...
Bright and Shiny Shiny
Bright and Shiny Shiny rated it
5.0 We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families
I hate to say I had no idea this had gone on until I read the book when it first hit paperback. Wonderful book about an absolutely horrendous event. At the time I wondered why this hadn't been all over the news but it is a book about dark-skinned people in another continent so why should americans...
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