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Immaculee Ilibagiza grew up in a country she loved, surrounded by a family she cherished. But in 1994 her idyllic world was ripped apart as Rwanda descended into a bloody genocide. Immaculee's family was brutally murdered during a killing spree that lasted three months and claimed the lives of nearly a million Rwandans. Incredibly, Immaculee survived the slaughter. For 91 days, she and seven other women huddled silently together in the cramped bathroom of a local pastor while hundreds of machete-wielding killers hunted for them. The triumphant story of this remarkable young woman's journey through the darkness of genocide will inspire anyone whose life has been touched by fear, suffering, and loss. This is Immaculee's first book.
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Immaculee Illibagiza is a survivor of the Rwandan Holocaust. She now works in the Rwandan office at the United Nations in New York.
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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful
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What an amazing book!
Or maybe it is just an amazing story, the hideous inhumanity that prejudice can drive us to coupled by incredible forgiveness. I read the whole book in 24 hours straight - something that I haven't done in years.
Immaculee is from a loving, respected Catholic family in a small town in the west of Rwanda. A family who believed your tribal background shouldn't matter in a country where history and particularly Belgian colonial rule had made it of paramount importance.
It is the story of her childhood and adolescence in Rwanda before the unbelievable genocide that was encouraged by the government and allowed to run unchecked by the rest of the world. It is Immaculee's story of God's love, strength and revelation to her in situations that none of us ever want to imagine, the brutal murder of family and friends by their own friends and neighbours and yet it is not an overtly religious book.
Although in a part of the world of which I have no experience it was so easy to imagine all the people as real people that you could know and that is as it is, they are or were real people.
Or maybe it is just an amazing story, the hideous inhumanity that prejudice can drive us to coupled by incredible forgiveness. I read the whole book in 24 hours straight - something that I haven't done in years.
Immaculee is from a loving, respected Catholic family in a small town in the west of Rwanda. A family who believed your tribal background shouldn't matter in a country where history and particularly Belgian colonial rule had made it of paramount importance.
It is the story of her childhood and adolescence in Rwanda before the unbelievable genocide that was encouraged by the government and allowed to run unchecked by the rest of the world. It is Immaculee's story of God's love, strength and revelation to her in situations that none of us ever want to imagine, the brutal murder of family and friends by their own friends and neighbours and yet it is not an overtly religious book.
Although in a part of the world of which I have no experience it was so easy to imagine all the people as real people that you could know and that is as it is, they are or were real people.
7 of 7 people found the following review helpful
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An excellent book chronicling one woman's amazing struggle for survival in the absolute madness of the Rwandan genocide. You could not fail to be deeply moved by this harrowing account of minute by minute survival with an ultimate message of hope. Superb reading.
11 of 12 people found the following review helpful
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I havent read a book that made me cry for ages.
The general story is about the Rwanden holocaust. How Immaculee's neighbors and friends turned against them, how their goverment turned against them, how their country turned against them. only because they were born tutsi. About half of the story is dedicated to Immaculee growing up in a country she loved, she didnt even know her tribe untill she enterd second shool. She was mostly unnaware of the political situation deterioating untill the war actually started. She was in uni by that time and her father had just asked her to return home When she did return home the holocaist started and her small village was in turmoil, the family was split up. She was hidden in a small cramped bathroom with 6 or 7 other women for about 9 weeks listening to the radios blurt out lies, and best friends deny liking them and accuse her family of trying to kill them and all the other hutus in the area. God was Immaculees savior. that is probally the moral of the book (if there is 1 bar dont dicriminate) that god is all power full and we must learn to love him and his other children, no matter what evil posses them, we must learn to forgive. The oral isnt forced upon you but you know its there, the style of writing is very good. I give it FOUR STARS
Over 1 million people died in the Rwanden holocaust, and to think that it so long for the western world what happend!!
read it its ace (in a sad way)
ps. very religous, but in a good way. It shows how diffrent people cope with tragdys.
thanks hope this helped
:D
The general story is about the Rwanden holocaust. How Immaculee's neighbors and friends turned against them, how their goverment turned against them, how their country turned against them. only because they were born tutsi. About half of the story is dedicated to Immaculee growing up in a country she loved, she didnt even know her tribe untill she enterd second shool. She was mostly unnaware of the political situation deterioating untill the war actually started. She was in uni by that time and her father had just asked her to return home When she did return home the holocaist started and her small village was in turmoil, the family was split up. She was hidden in a small cramped bathroom with 6 or 7 other women for about 9 weeks listening to the radios blurt out lies, and best friends deny liking them and accuse her family of trying to kill them and all the other hutus in the area. God was Immaculees savior. that is probally the moral of the book (if there is 1 bar dont dicriminate) that god is all power full and we must learn to love him and his other children, no matter what evil posses them, we must learn to forgive. The oral isnt forced upon you but you know its there, the style of writing is very good. I give it FOUR STARS
Over 1 million people died in the Rwanden holocaust, and to think that it so long for the western world what happend!!
read it its ace (in a sad way)
ps. very religous, but in a good way. It shows how diffrent people cope with tragdys.
thanks hope this helped
:D
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Huge disappointment
I agree entirely with the negative reviews of this. I hated it. I'm sure it was a terrible experience this woman lived with, but I found it very much along the lines of... Read more
Published 17 days ago by Laoangel
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Published 5 months ago by Natalie S.
fantastic
I received this book and finished it the next day. It was almost impossible to put it down once i started reading it.
Published 13 months ago by abumiss
Highly recommended
Couldn't put this book down. Gripping and incredible. Really makes you see the power of the human (and divine) spirit.
Published 17 months ago by LizH
Left to tell
A must for anyone who wants to understand more about the hohocaust in Rwanda. Amazingly full of hope and forgiveness.
Published 20 months ago by Mrs. Janet Margot Smith
To get ahead, get God!
This book purports to be a personal history - in effect the autobiography - of a Rwandan woman, Immaculee Ilibagiza. Read more
Published 21 months ago by Gloops
Deeply moving
I don't think anyone will fail to be moved by this young woman's story of hope and survival. Immacluee's story begins as a happy one, surrounded by loving family and friends in... Read more
Published 23 months ago by JoJo
God's Love Can Overcome All
Immaculee's story certainly touches the heart and soul of anyone who reads it. In my opinion her constant prayers are the only way to survive her conditions. Read more
Published on 27 Jan 2010 by Irene Gardner
Religious claptrap obfuscates a beautiful story
Reviews of this book need a little balance. I bought this story expecting a story of great courage and the indefatigability of the human spirit. Read more
Published on 7 Dec 2009 by M. Anderson
A powerful and shocking story of what evil can do in the hearts of...
I was in college during the Rwandan genocide in 1994. It's beyond my comprehension to think about the bloodshed that was happening on the other side of the world. Read more
Published on 15 Oct 2009 by Novel Teen
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