
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families
Stories from Rwanda
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Philip Gourevitch
This program is read by the author.
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award.
An unforgettable firsthand account of a people's response to genocide and what it tells us about humanity.
This remarkable audiobook chronicles what has happened in Rwanda and neighboring states since 1994, when the Rwandan government called on everyone in the Hutu majority to murder everyone in the Tutsi minority. Though the killing was low-tech - largely by machete - it was carried out at shocking speed: some 800,000 people were exterminated in 100 days. A Tutsi pastor, in a letter to his church president, a Hutu, used the chilling phrase that gives Philip Gourevitch his title.
With keen dramatic intensity, Gourevitch frames the genesis and horror of Rwanda's "genocidal logic" in the anguish of its aftermath: the mass displacements, the temptations of revenge and the quest for justice, the impossibly crowded prisons and refugee camps. Through intimate portraits of Rwandans in all walks of life, he focuses on the psychological and political challenges of survival and on how the new leaders of postcolonial Africa went to war in the Congo when resurgent genocidal forces threatened to overrun Central Africa.
Can a country composed largely of perpetrators and victims create a cohesive national society? This moving contribution to the literature of witness tells us much about the struggle everywhere to forge sane, habitable political orders, and about the stubbornness of the human spirit in a world of extremity.
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Incredible coverage
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Clear, harrowing account of an underreported tragedy
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The author’s voice and tones were appropriate throughout this book and I also commend him on his bravery for having traveled back and forth to and from Rwanda during those fragile years post their genocide. I learned a descent amount and have more intelligence about Rwandans and their vultures and their governments roles... it still pangs me that a France plus other western nations and organizations were/ still are assisting the perpetrators of the genocide and the other slaughtering that took place before or after the 94’ Genocide.
We have to understand the tragedies of the past to prevent them from happening in the future. Case and point Bosnia, America’s Chattel Slavery, ...
Comprehensive book of Rwanda’s history
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A must read!
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Essential for understanding contemporary Rwanda
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Gourevitch gives no one a pass, no government or any body. Truly it's a very unbiased work. He sticks to the genocide and rarely if every veers off course. His passion is palpable. What an astounding work.
Unimaginable
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Well written and researched story
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Highly Recommend
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Incredible book
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The story was somewhat non linear which confuses for first few chapters but the seemingly disjointed stories come together as a coherent picture. Narration was not that good. It had a more of crime reporter quality which was ill suited and not in line with the writing. But again after some chapters these dissonances fade into background.
Moving, speechless
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