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For A Long Time, Afraid Of The Night

✍ Scribed by De Jager, Marjolijn;Ghata, Yasmine

Publisher
Schaffner Press, Inc.
Year
2019
Tongue
English
Weight
78 KB
Edition
First English language trade paperback edition
Category
Fiction
City
Rwanda,Rwanda.
ISBN
1943156778

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Synopsis

In the middle of the night in early April, 1994, Arsène, an eight-year old Rwandan boy, flees his village as shouts and gunshots draw near. Carrying only a battered suitcase of his father’s, hastily packed with a few essential items by his grandmother—who along with the rest of his family and the entire village will be massacred that night—he runs into the wilderness and wanders alone and afraid through unspeakable horrors. Some years later, his story and that of a young writing teacher, Suzanne, converge. As a teenager adopted by a Parisian couple and enrolled in a private school, Arsène is prompted by her assignment to bring in a cherished family object, for which he chooses the battered family suitcase, and his story unfolds—first in painful increments and then in a flood of confession he can only reveal by dictation. Suzanne in turn is reeling from the death of her father and the loss of her own childhood home. The two find a deep, emotional connection that transcends race, history, and geography.

✦ Subjects

Rwanda

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