Cockroaches

This title might be misleading at first glance – it has nothing to do with that dreaded insect. Here, the word cockroach is used as a derogatory term for an entire ethnic group that was nearly wiped from the globe in very recent history. Cockroach (Inyenzi) is the term given to the Tutsis by the Hut......more

First I believe we should thank Archipelago for producing such fine books. This was really very hard book to read especially for those who had similar experience like the Author portrays,a world where your skin, hair, nose, Tribe, Race and other physical features can determine your fate and how other......more

Baratas, de Scholastique Mukasonga “Baratas” é o termo pejorativo para se referir ao povo da etnia Tusti pelos Hutus, que são a maioria em Ruanda. A perseguição ao grupo minoritário era tão intensa que resultou em um massacre no ano de 1994, que vitimou brutalmente quase 1 milhão de pessoas em um per......more

A must read! ...but a very difficult one. Rwandan history is not clear in my mind except for the terrible flare of genocidal violence in the 1990s where the Tutsi people were violently exterminated from those areas of the country to which they had been consigned in earlier decades. Mukasonga fleshes......more

Harrowing, essential story of the Rwandan genocide from a single family's perspective. Mukasonga is a deft, restrained writer who doesn't linger as she goes beat by beat through her life of inconceivably arbitrary discrimination and horror with a surprising amount of warmth. But happiness is haunted......more