We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda 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. |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 63
... dead of Rwanda accumulated at nearly three times the rate of Jewish dead during the Holocaust, It was the most efficient IN THE SOUTHERN hill town of Gikongoro, the electricity had.
... dead left too much to the imagination. I BEGAN VISITING Rwanda in May of 1995, and I hadn't been there long before I met the pygmy in Gikongoro. I wouldn't have guessed that he was a pygmy: he was nearly five and a half feet tall. By ...
... dead bodies lying near the executioner, and he felt a desire to look at them, and at the same time felt disgust at the thought, and tried to turn aside. For some time he fought with himself and put his hand over his eyes, but in the end ...
... dead looked like pictures of the dead. They did not smell. They did not buzz with flies. They had been killed thirteen months earlier, and they hadn't been moved. Skin stuck here and there over the bones, many of which lay scattered ...
... dead before. What to do? Look? Yes. I wanted to see them, I suppose; I had come to see them — the dead had been left un buried at Nyarubuye for memorial purposes — and there they were, so intimately exposed. I didn't need to see them. I ...