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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... on the upturned barrel of his machine gun, fell suddenly into his own lap, asleep, then jerked awake and smiled and drank some more. The pygmy took no notice. "I have a principle," he announced. "I believe in the principle of. 5.
... took a guess. "You mean that all humanity is one?" "That is my theory," the pygmy said. "That is my But I have a problem. I must marry a white woman." "Why not?" I said. Then, after a moment, I said, "But why, if we're all the same? Who ...
... took Marlow's condition on returning from Africa as my point of departure. I wanted to know how Rwandans understood what had happened in their country, and how they were getting on in the aftermath. The word "genocide" and the images of ...
... 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 the task, it is tempting to play with theories of collective madness, mob mania, a ...
... took photographs, because I wondered whether I could really see what I was seeing while I saw it, and I wanted also an excuse to look a bit more closely.  We went on through the first room and out the far side. There was another room ...