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Cockroaches
- Title
- Cockroaches / Scholastique Mukasonga ; translated from the French by Jordan Stump.
- Author
- Mukasonga, Scholastique
- Publication
- Brooklyn, NY : Archipelago Books, [2016]
- ©2016
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Details
- Additional Authors
- Stump, Jordan, 1959-
- Description
- 165 pages; 18 cm
- Summary
- "Imagine being born into a world where everything about you--the shape of your nose, the look of your hair, the place of your birth--designates you as an undesirable, an inferior, a menace, no better than a cockroach, something to be driven away and ultimately exterminated. Imagine being thousands of miles away while your family and friends are brutally and methodically slaughtered. Imagine being entrusted by your parents with the mission of leaving everything you know and finding some way to survive, in the name of your family and your people. Scholastique Mukasonga's Cockroaches is the story of growing up a Tutsi in Hutu-dominated Rwanda--the story of a happy child, a loving family, all wiped out in the genocide of 1994. A vivid, bitterwsweet depiction of family life and bond in a time of immense hardship, it is also a story of incredible endurance, and the duty to remember that loss and those lost while somehow carrying on. Sweet, funny, wrenching, and deeply moving, Cockroaches is a window onto an unforgettable world of love, grief, and horror"--
- Uniform Title
- Inyenzi, ou Les cafards. English
- Alternative Title
- Inyenzi, ou Les cafards.
- Subjects
- Tutsi (African people) > Crimes against
- Rwanda
- Genocide
- Women authors, Black
- Mukasonga, Scholastique
- Tutsi (African people) > Crimes against > Rwanda > History > 20th century
- Civil War (Rwanda : 1994)
- Rwanda > Biography
- Hutu (African people) > Politics and government
- Atrocities
- 1900-1999
- Rwanda > Ethnic relations > History > 20th century
- History
- Women authors, Black > 21st century > Biography
- Black author
- Autobiographies
- Ethnic relations
- Rwanda > History > Civil War, 1994 > Atrocities
- Hutu (African people) > Rwanda > Politics and government > 20th century
- Genocide > Rwanda > History > 20th century
- Biography
- Genre/Form
- Autobiographies.
- Biography.
- History.
- Call Number
- Sc C 17-2
- ISBN
- 9780914671534
- 0914671537
- LCCN
- 2016025248
- 40026578653
- OCLC
- 934676567
- Author
- Mukasonga, Scholastique, author.
- Title
- Cockroaches / Scholastique Mukasonga ; translated from the French by Jordan Stump.
- Publisher
- Brooklyn, NY : Archipelago Books, [2016]
- Copyright Date
- ©2016
- Edition
- First Archipelago Books Edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Local Subject
- Black author.
- Added Author
- Stump, Jordan, 1959- translator.
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40026578653
- Research Call Number
- Sc C 17-2