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Kibogo
A new masterwork of satire, lore, and living memory from the leading voice of French-Rwandan literature.
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Longlisted for The National Book Critics Circle Awards for Barrios Books in Translation Prize.
In four beautifully woven parts, Mukasonga spins a marvellous recounting of the clash between ancient Rwandan beliefs and the missionaries determined to replace them with European Christianity.
When a rogue priest is defrocked for fusing the gospels with the martyrdom of Kibogo, a fierce clash of cults ensues. Swirling with the heady smell of wet earth and flashes of acerbic humour, Mukasonga brings to life the vital mythologies that imbue the Rwandan spirit. In doing so, she gives us a tale of disarming simplicity and profound universal truth.
Kibogo's story is reserved for the evening's end, when women sit around a fire drinking honeyed brew, when just a few are able to stave off sleep. With heads nodding, drifting into the mist of a dream, one faithful storyteller will weave the old legends of the hillside, stories which church missionaries have done everything in their power to expunge.
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ISBN: 9781914198588
Publisher: Daunt Books
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 05 October 2023
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Daunt Books
Contributors:
- Translated by Mark Polizzotti
Audience: General / adult
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Width: 129.0mm
Height: 198.0mm
Weight: 0g
Pages: 184
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About the Author
Scholastique Mukasonga was born in Rwanda in 1956. She settled in France in 1992, only two years before the brutal genocide of the Tutsi swept through Rwanda. In the aftermath, Mukasonga learned that thirty-seven of her fam- ily members had been massacred. Our Lady of the Nile, her debut novel, won the Ahmadou Kourouma Prize and the Prix Renaudot, and was shortlisted for the International DUBLIN Literary Award. Her other books include Cockroaches, The Barefoot Woman and Igifu.
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