We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families, Stories from Rwanda Tapa blanda - 1999

London: Picador an Imprint of Pan Macmillan, 1999. Soft cover. Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. The covers are lightly shelf stained and lightly bumped at the edges; the pages lightly tanned, else the book appears unread. 355 pages. "This book concerns what happened when the Rwandan government in 1994 implemented a policy that called on everyone in the Hutu majority to murder everyone in the Tutsi minority. Though the massacres were low-tech - done largely by machete - they were carried out at dazzling speed, and 800,000 people were killed in a hundred days. Pastors in one Tutsi community sent a letter to their church president, a Hutu, that included the chilling phrase that gives Philip Gourevitch his title. Mr. Gourevitch's haunting work is not only an anatomy of this genocide and what Rwandans call its "genocidal logic," but a vivid history of the background to the tragedy and an unforgettable account of its aftermath: the mass displacements, the… Leer más

UK: Picador. Good. Paperback. 1999. 355 pages. .