the voice in this book is meticulous and humane." - Michael Pearson, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
examines with humility, anger, grief and a remarkable level of both political and moral intelligence." - Susie Linfield, Los Angeles Times "The most important book I have read in many years. "A sobering, revealing, and deeply thoughtful chronicle." - The Boston Globe I think there is no limit to what we may expect from him." - Robert Stone This volume establishes him as the peer of Michael Herr, Ryszard Kapuscinski, and Tobias Wolff. " has the mind of a scholar along with the observative capacity of a good novelist, and he writes like an angel. " sobering voice of witness that Gourevitch has vividly captured in his work." - Wole Soyinka, The New York Times Book Review Through intimate portraits of Rwandans in all walks of life, he focuses on the psychological and political challenges of survival and on how the new leaders of postcolonial Africa went to war in the Congo when resurgent genocidal forces threatened to overrun central Africa.Ĭan a country composed largely of perpetrators and victims create a cohesive national society? This moving contribution to the literature of witness tells us much about the struggle everywhere to forge sane, habitable political orders, and about the stubbornness of the human spirit in a world of extremity. With keen dramatic intensity, Gourevitch frames the genesis and horror of Rwanda's genocidal logic in the anguish of its aftermath: the mass displacements, the temptations of revenge and the quest for justice, the impossibly crowded prisons and refugee camps. A Tutsi pastor, in a letter to his church president, a Hutu, used the chilling phrase that gives Gourevitch his title. Though the killing was low-tech-largely by machete-it was carried out at shocking speed: some 800,000 people were exterminated in a hundred days. This remarkable debut book from Philip Gourevitch chronicles what has happened in Rwanda and neighboring states since 1994, when the Rwandan government called on everyone in the Hutu majority to murder everyone in the Tutsi minority. We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families is the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction.Īn unforgettable firsthand account of a people's response to genocide and what it tells us about humanity.
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