Philip Gourevitch: We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families, Kartoniert / Broschiert

Kurzbeschreibung

In 1994, the Rwandan government orchestrated a campaign of extermination, in which everyone in the Hutu majority was called upon to murder everyone in the Tutsi minority. Close to a million people were slaughtered in a hundred days, and the rest of the world did nothing to stop it. In 1995, Philip Gourevitch went to Rwanda to investigate the most unambiguous genocide since the Holocaust.

Klappentext

All at once, as it seemed, something we could have only imagined was upon us - and we could still only imagine it. This is what fascinates me most in existence: the peculiar necessity of imagining what is, in fact, real.

In 1994, the Rwandan government orchestrated a campaign of extermination, in which everyone in the Hutu majority was called upon to murder everyone in the Tutsi minority. Close to a million people were slaughtered in a hundred days, and the rest of the world did nothing to stop it. A year later, Philip Gourevitch went to Rwanda to investigate the most unambiguous genocide since Hitler's war against the Jews.

Hailed by the Guardian as one of the hundred greatest non-fiction books of all time, We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families is a first-hand account of one of the defining outrages of modern history, an unforgettable anatomy of Rwanda's decimation. As riveting as it is moving, it is a profound reckoning with humanity's betrayal and its perseverance.

'Magnificent, terrifying . . . Gourevitch's account is factual, unemotional - and utterly gut-wrenching' Irish Times
'This soul-searching, painfully lyrical book rises above its grisly subject' Evening Standard