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The "stories" in this book's subtitle are both the author's, as he repeatedly visits this tiny country in an attempt to make sense of what has happened, and those of the people he interviews. These include a Tutsi doctor who has seen much of her family killed over decades of Tutsi oppression, a Schindleresque hotel manager who hid hundreds of refugees from certain death, and a Rwandan bishop who has been accused of supporting the slaughter of Tutsi schoolchildren, and can only answer these charges by saying, "What could I do?" Gourevitch, a staff writer for the New Yorker, describes Rwanda's history with remarkable clarity and documents the experience of tragedy with a sober grace. The reader will ask along with the author: Why does this happen? And why don't we bother to stop it? --Maria Dolan, Amazon.com --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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The history and personal stories of the genocide,
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This review is from: We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda (Hardcover)
An excellent history of Rwanda's 1994 genocide told by the author, a journalist for the "New Yorker" magazine, but including a large number of personal accounts. If a book about this horrible salughter doesn't make you feel ashamed then it shouldn't be published. This one works, brilliantly. It is also more up to date than other books on the Rwanda crisis in that it includes descriptions of the Rwandan Patriotric Army's forcible dissolution of the refugee camps in Zaire in 1996. This is a period which supporters of the RPA tend to have problems with. Gourevitch is certainly one of those supporters but he tackles the issue head on. The most haunting passages of this book, which live in the memory, are the personal recollections of loss and survival in the genocide. Having spoken to many survivors myself I know how difficult it is to retell those awful stories without destroying their immediacy and horror, but Gourevitch manages this perfectly. I would urge anyone who is thinking of reading this book to do so, but would encourage them to look at Fergal Keane's masterpiece, "Season as Blood" as well. For the full tragedy, fear and anger, Keane is the better guide.
18 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
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This book must be read,
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This review is from: We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed with Our Families (Paperback)
...This book was written by a journalist and does not claim to be an academic history of Rwanda during the genocide. It's concerned more with the reasons individual people did what they did rather than a clinical reporting of facts. Its account of the complete failure of the International community to respond in an even partially adequate fashion coupled with its insights into the minds of the Rwandan people - both Hutu and Tutsi - before and after the genocide make it an absolute must read for anyone who really wants to know what happened in Central Africa over the past 10 years. That Philip Gourevitch is also a brilliant writer is just one more reason to buy this book.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:
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Should be read by everyone,
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This review is from: We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda (Hardcover)
An excellent account of a horrifying event in history, and an indictment of the Western powers which stood by and did nothing.The book is accessible and brillianty written, and despite its topic it does not crush the spirit. Gourevitch chronicles chronicles every extreme of good and evil, form the priest who refused to help a group of desperate Tutsis, saying "you must die, God no longer wants you", to the Hutu hotel manager who risked his life and saved a thousand refugees armed only with a few friends in high places and a drinks cabinet to bribe the genocidal soldiers. The book is a work of journalism, and people who want a comprehensive and fully referenced academic work may want to look elsewhere, and at times the author does perhaps treat the RPF too uncritically, but these are minor complaints. As a document of genicide, and as an insight into the dark side of the human soul, this is almost the equal of Primo Levi's "If This is a Man"
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