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The Barefoot Woman
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The Barefoot Woman
It was while we were weeding the sorghum field thatMama taught me most of her memories of the Rwandathat used to be. Alas! I've forgotten so many of thesecrets Stefania told me, the secrets a mother tells onlyher daughter.
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From the author of the critically acclaimed novel Our Lady of the Nile, comes a haunting, delicately wrought work of non-fiction, memorialising a lost childhood, community and way of life.
When Scholastique Mukasonga's family are killed in the genocide of the Tutsis by the Hutus in Rwanda, she is unable to fulfil her mother Stefania's wish to shroud her body with pagne. So instead, she now weaves her mother's shroud with words, drawing on inherited traditions of storytelling to offer a devastating, unforgettable tribute.
In beautiful, lucid prose, Mukasonga lays before us the fierce courage and strength of her mother as she fought for her children's safety, her family's exile to the Burundi border, and her community's efforts to maintain ritual and tradition. Vivid, evocative and deeply moving, this is a remarkable work of art and act of love.
'A powerful work of witness and memorial, a loving act of reconstruction, and an unflinching reckoning.' - Zadie Smith
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The Barefoot Woman by Scholastique Mukasonga has been praised for its poignant and moving portrayal of the author's mother and their shared experience of survival during the Rwandan genocide. The memoir beautifully captures the strength, resilience, and enduring love in the face of unimaginable hardship, with evocative prose that honours Mukasonga's mother's memory. Critics have highlighted its emotional depth and the powerful way it personalises a broader historical tragedy.
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ISBN: 9781914198083
Publisher: Daunt Books
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 07 April 2022
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Daunt Books
Contributors:
- Translated by Jordan Stump
- Translated by Jordan Stump
- Translated by Jordan Stump
Audience: General / adult
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Weight: 0g
Pages: 153
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 family members had been massacred. Mukasonga has won many prizes, for individual books and for the body of her work. Among those for the latter are the Simone de Beauvoir Prize for Women's Freedom, an American Academy of Arts and Letters award and the Seligmann Prize from the Chancellery of the University of Paris.
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