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Dying to Live: A Rwandan Family's Five-Year Flight Across the Congo
Pierre-Claver Ndacyayisenga
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Description for Dying to Live: A Rwandan Family's Five-Year Flight Across the Congo
Paperback. Originally published as: Voyage a travers la mort, Le temoignage d'un exile Hutu du Rwanda. Translator(s): Taylor, Phil. Num Pages: 190 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: BM; HBJH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 143 x 213 x 10. Weight in Grams: 250.
Pierre-Claver Ndacyayisenga was teaching history in Kigali, Rwanda, when he was forced to flee to the neighbouring Congo with his wife and three children. Thus began a harrowing five-year voyage of survival during which they travelled thousands of miles on foot from one refugee camp to another. Lacking food and water, they were often robbed, sometimes raped, and constantly pursued and bombed by shadowy armed soldiers with sophisticated weapons and aerial surveillance information. This brilliant and touching book is the story of one family among the more than 300,000 refugees—many of whom did not survive. For those wishing to understand ... Read more
Pierre-Claver Ndacyayisenga was teaching history in Kigali, Rwanda, when he was forced to flee to the neighbouring Congo with his wife and three children. Thus began a harrowing five-year voyage of survival during which they travelled thousands of miles on foot from one refugee camp to another. Lacking food and water, they were often robbed, sometimes raped, and constantly pursued and bombed by shadowy armed soldiers with sophisticated weapons and aerial surveillance information. This brilliant and touching book is the story of one family among the more than 300,000 refugees—many of whom did not survive. For those wishing to understand ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Baraka Books
Number of pages
190
Condition
New
Number of Pages
190
Place of Publication
Montreal, Canada
ISBN
9781926824789
SKU
V9781926824789
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99-50
About Pierre-Claver Ndacyayisenga
Pierre-Claver Ndacyayisenga is a former history professor at the Lycée de Kigali, Rwanda. He and his family were forced to flee the country in 1994. Casey Roberts is an award-winning translator and editor. He is the recipient of the John Glassco Prize awarded by the Canadian Literary Translators Association for his translation of the YA novel Break Away ... Read more
Reviews for Dying to Live: A Rwandan Family's Five-Year Flight Across the Congo
Ndacyayisenga’s memoir offers an important look at a piece of African history that most of the world was unaware of, or chose to ignore, while it was happening . . . The book is informative for readers interested in refugee issues, but it will have a broader appeal to those interested in history and justice." —Publishers Weekly