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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... 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 was not my strength that needed ...
... happened in Rwanda. Yet looking at the buildings and the bodies, and hearing the silence of the place, with the grand Italianate basilica standing there deserted, and beds of exquisite, decadent, death-fertilized flowers blooming over ...
... happened, I can be told how, and after nearly three years or looking around Rwanda and listening to Rwandans, I can tell you how, and 1 will. But the horror of it — the idiocy, the waste, the sheer wrongness — remains unci rcums crib ...
... happened here? The people aren't good. If the people were good, the country might be OK," Joseph told me that his brother and sister had been killed, and he made a : with his tongue against his teeth. "The country is empty,' "Empty!" It ...
... happened to Rwanda was an attempt to eliminate a people. There were only people's stories. "Every survivor wonders why he is alive," Abbe Modeste, a priest at the cathedral in Butare, Rwanda's second-largest city, told me. Abbe Modeste ...