Title : The Barefoot Woman - Scholastique Mukasonga - book

Summary :

"This barefoot woman who gives the title to my book is my mother, Stefania. When my sisters and I were children in Rwanda, my mother often told us: "When I die, above all, cover my body with my loincloth, no one must see the body of a mother." My mother was murdered, like all the Tutsi of Nyamata, in April 1994; I was unable to cover her body, her remains disappeared. This book is the shroud with which I was unable to adorn my mother. It is also the heartbreaking joy of bringing her back to life, she who, hunted until the end, wanted to save us by thwarting the bloody terror of everyday life for us. This is her story, our story, on the threshold of the horrible genocide." Scholastique Mukasonga.

• EAN : 9782070446667
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• Book in good condition
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