Details
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Title
Life Laid Bare : The Survivors in Rwanda Speak
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Author
Hatzfeld, Jean
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Binding
Paperback
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Edition
First Edition
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Condition
Used - Very Good
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Pages
256
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Volumes
1
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Language
ENG
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Publisher
Other Press, LLC, NY
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Date
2007-10-15
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Bookseller's Inventory #
4802295-6
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ISBN
9781590512739 / 1590512731
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Weight
0.45 lbs (0.20 kg)
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Dimensions
7.72 x 5 x 0.7 in (19.61 x 12.70 x 1.78 cm)
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Library of Congress subjects
Rwanda - History - Civil War, 1994 -, Genocide - Rwanda
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Library of Congress Catalog Number
2007013924
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Dewey Decimal Code
967.571
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From the publisher
Jean Hatzfeld
Jean Hatzfeld, an international reporter for Libération since 1973, is the author of many books, including two on the war in Croatia and Bosnia and Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speak, winner of the Prix Joseph Kessel. He lives in Paris.
Linda Coverdale
Linda Coverdale has a Ph.D. in French, is a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, and is the award-winning translator of almost fifty books. Her most recent honor is the 2006 Scott Moncrieff Prize for Jean Hatzfeld’s Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speak.
Media reviews
Dave Eggers, author of What Is the What
“Jean Hatzfeld's Machete Season, wherein the perpetrators of the Rwandan genocide spoke about their crimes, was an astonishing feat of reportage and oral history. Life Laid Bare, which allows the victims to speak, is an even greater achievement—a book so elegantly wrought, so unexpected and revelatory, that it's absolutely essential reading in understanding what happened in Rwanda, how the survivors of genocide find a way to begin again while never forgetting to bear witness. As Marie-Lousie Kagoyire, one of the narrators says, ‘[S]howing our hearts to a stranger, talking about how we feel, laying bare our feelings as survivors, that shocks us beyond measure.’”
Publishers Weekly
French journalist and war correspondent Hatzfeld offers brief, pithy accounts of 14 survivors of the Rwandan genocide of 1994, in which 10,000 Tutsis seeking refuge in churches were slaughtered by machete-wielding Hutus...Even though each account tells the same harrowing story, each voice is unique. Bringing cumulative power to what, in lesser hands, might have been a random collection of historical accounts, Hatzfeld's wrenching collection compels an active response to the genocides occurring today.
Booklist
For each of the 14 interviewed today, Hatfeld fills in the background and provides a black-and-white photo. Those photos, accompanied by the clear personal voices, break your heart. The daily struggle with survivor guilt and outsiders’ indifference is part of a constant connection with the Holocaust.
Kirkus Reviews
As he did in Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speak (2005), journalist Hatzfeld provides informative introductions to each chapter but allows his subjects to speak for themselves. The collection’s devastating power comes from the no-holds-barred narratives, with additional kudos to translator Coverdale for rendering their words in spare, haunting English....Hatzfeld is to be commended for helping to preserve crucial eyewitness testimony and for sharing it with what one hopes will be a very large audience.
About the author
Jean HatzfeldJean Hatzfeld, an international reporter for
Libration since 1973, is the author of many books, including two on the war in Croatia and Bosnia and
Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speak, winner of the Prix Joseph Kessel. He lives in Paris.
Linda CoverdaleLinda Coverdale has a Ph.D. in French, is a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, and is the award-winning translator of almost fifty books. Her most recent honor is the 2006 Scott Moncrieff Prize for Jean Hatzfeld's
Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speak.