We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda
by Philip Gourevitch
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Author: Philip GourevitchEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1999-09-01
ISBN: 0312243359
Number of pages: 356
Publisher: Picador
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Book Review: Wrenching, compelling... a tour of the dark side of human nature...
Summary: 5 Stars
There are honestly few books that I would say that EVERYONE should be required to read, but this is one of them...I read this book for the first time almost a year ago, and it is still as haunting now as it was then.. it's truly both a consuming and provoking book. You can feel the effect that the experience had on the author on almost every page. The madness of hatred that fueled this genocide, but also the ambiguity and lack of interest from the rest of the world that abbetted it. I disagree with the reviews that say he lost focus midway through the book. I think that something like a genocide is just as complex as the reporting of it.. There are so many individual parts and stories, and the descriptions of the 'relief' efforts and their breakdowns are a vital part of the story. People are horrified at the Holocaust but don't even seem to notice that the Rawandan genocide occured with blinding speed by comparison. The world's view of the event resonates with the very prejudice at the heart of the genocide itself.
The book is not simply a reporting of events, it is an attempt to delve into the moral complexity of it all.. How someone could slaughter their neighbor with a machete, and then how the survivors could go on living next to the killers after it happened. What makes this book so vital and so frightening, is how easy it is for something like this to happen, and how likely that it will probably happen again... it's a look both into the dark heart of the abyss, but also a look into ourselves, and how we can stand of the edge of a moral cliff...
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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction.In April 1994, the Rwandan government called upon everyone in the Hutu majority to kill each member of the Tutsi minority, and over the next three months 800,000 Tutsis perished in the most unambiguous case of genocide since Hitler's war against the Jews. Philip Gourevitch's haunting work is an anatomy of the war in Rwanda, a vivid history of the tragedy's background, and an unforgettable account of its aftermath. One of the most acclaimed books of the year, this account will endure as a chilling document of our time.
"Hutus kill Tutsis, then Tutsis kill Hutus--if that's really all there is to it, then no wonder we can't be bothered with it," Philip Gourevitch writes, imagining the response of somebody in a country far from the ethnic strife and mass killings of Rwanda. But the situation is not so simple, and in this complex and wrenching book, he explains why the Rwandan genocide should not be written off as just another tribal dispute.
The "stories" in this book's subtitle are both the author's, as he repeatedly visits this tiny country in an attempt to make sense of what has happened, and those of the people he interviews. These include a Tutsi doctor who has seen much of her family killed over decades of Tutsi oppression, a Schindleresque hotel manager who hid hundreds of refugees from certain death, and a Rwandan bishop who has been accused of supporting the slaughter of Tutsi schoolchildren, and can only answer these charges by saying, "What could I do?" Gourevitch, a staff writer for the New Yorker, describes Rwanda's history with remarkable clarity and documents the experience of tragedy with a sober grace. The reader will ask along with the author: Why does this happen? And why don't we bother to stop it? --Maria Dolan
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