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Igifu / Scholastique Mukasonga ; translated from the French by Jordan Stump.

by Mukasonga, Scholastique.

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Archipelago Books, 2020.

Genocide -- Rwanda -- Fiction.

Survival -- Fiction.

Rwanda -- Fiction.

9781939810786 (pbk.)

1st Archipelago Books ed.

110 p. ; 18 cm.

"First published as L'Iguifou by Editions Gallimard, Paris, 2010" -- T.p. verso.

In English, translated from the French.

Igifu -- The glorious cow -- Fear -- The curse of beauty -- Grief.

"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.

Autobiographical fiction.

French fiction -- Translations into English.

Stump, Jordan, 1959-

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