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. |
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... genocide in a small country far away." — Sir Brian Urquhart "Shocking and important... clear and balanced. ..the voice in this book is meticulous and humane." — Michael I "Astonishing. . . [Gourevitch] is masterful at placing the ...
... genocide" to describe what had happened, I was repeatedly reminded of the moment, near the end of Conrad's Heart of Darkness, when the narrator Marlow is back in Europe, and his aunt, finding him depleted, fusses over his health. "It ...
... genocide was "Do your work!" And I saw that it was work, this butchery; hard work. It took many hacks — two, three, four, five hard hacks—to chop through the cow's leg. How many hacks to dismember a person? Considering the enormity of ...
... genocide, and by the summer of 1995, most of the dead had been buried. Fifteen months earlier, Rwanda had been the most densely populated country in Africa. Now the work of the killers looked just as they had intended: invisible. From ...
... genocide, was a robust man, with a taste for double-breasted suit jackets and lively ties, and he moved, as he spoke, with a brisk determination. But before taking his neighbor's advice, and fleeing Kigali in late April of 1994, he said ...