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Mukasonga, Scholastique.
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Genocide -- Rwanda -- Fiction.
Survival -- Fiction.
Rwanda -- Fiction.
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Mukasonga, Scholastique.
Genocide -- Rwanda -- Fiction.
Survival -- Fiction.
Rwanda -- Fiction.
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Igifu
/ Scholastique Mukasonga ; translated from the French by Jordan Stump.
by
Mukasonga, Scholastique.
Archipelago Books, 2020.
Call #:
FICTION MUK
Subjects
Genocide -- Rwanda -- Fiction.
Survival -- Fiction.
Rwanda -- Fiction.
ISBN:
9781939810786 (pbk.)
Edition:
1st Archipelago Books ed.
Description:
110 p. ; 18 cm.
Notes:
"First published as L'Iguifou by Editions Gallimard, Paris, 2010" -- T.p. verso.
In English, translated from the French.
Contents:
Igifu
-- The glorious cow -- Fear -- The curse of beauty -- Grief.
Summary:
"Scholastique Mukasonga's autobiographical stories rend a glorious Rwanda from the obliterating force of recent history, conjuring the noble cows of her home or the dew-swollen grass they graze on. In the title story, five-year-old Colomba tells of a merciless overlord, hunger or
igifu
, gnawing away at her belly. She searches for sap at the bud of a flower, scraps of sweet potato at the foot of her parent's bed, or a few grains of sorghum in the floor sweepings.
Igifu
becomes a dizzying hole in her stomach, a plunging abyss into which she falls. In a desperate act of preservation, Colomba's mother gathers enough sorghum to whip up a nourishing porridge, bringing Colomba back to life. This elixir courses through each story, a balm to soothe the pains of those so ferociously fighting for survival."--Publisher.
Genre:
Short stories.
Autobiographical fiction.
Black fiction.
French fiction -- Translations into English.
Other authors:
Stump, Jordan, 1959-
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