{"product_id":"jacaranda-by-gael-faye-9781784746063","title":"Jacaranda","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe highly anticipated second novel from a superstar international bestseller and prizewinner, Rwandan-French novelist and hip-hop artist Gaël Faye: a richly immersive story of a young man trying to understand his family's past and homeland, for readers of Abdulrazak Gurnah, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Chigozie Obioma.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eA young man journeys from Paris to Rwanda to discover the truth about his mother's past and the country of her birth, from bestselling and prize-winning Rwandan-French novelist and hip-hop artist Gaël Faye.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA luminous poetic quality ... unforgettable\u003c\/em\u003e – Leila Slimani\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eUtterly, captivatingly brilliant\u003c\/em\u003e – Philippe Sands\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eMilan – the twelve-year-old son of a French father and a Rwandan mother – blames flunking his exams on the emotional trauma of the genocide in his mother's homeland. It's a convenient excuse: growing up outside Paris in the 1990s, the violence is an abstraction that only reaches him through distant television broadcasts.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThat is, until Milan's mother introduces him to Claude, a young cousin with a bandaged head who has come to France seeking medical treatment. Thrilled to have a new playmate, Milan treats Claude as a brother until one day, he is sent back to Rwanda as quickly as he came.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFour years later, Milan travels for the first time to Rwanda, encountering a beguiling country and family members he never knew existed, and reuniting with Claude. But the trip raises more questions than it answers – about Milan's family history, the war and its aftershocks.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eOver the course of many years, Milan returns to Rwanda again and again, compelled to confront the past and imagine a new kind of future. \u003cem\u003eJacaranda\u003c\/em\u003e is a deeply felt portrait of a man seeking to understand his family and his nation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eA writer of great promise and grace\u003c\/em\u003e – Chigozie Obioma\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eGaël Faye's talent is breathtaking\u003c\/em\u003e – Imbolo Mbue\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67709094625516,"sku":"9781784746063","price":45.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781784746063-jacaranda-1.jpg?v=1791843665","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/jacaranda-by-gael-faye-9781784746063","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}