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    We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda
    We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda
    We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda
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    We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda

    Written by Philip Gourevitch

    Narrated by Philip Gourevitch

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    This program is read by the author.

    *Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award*

    We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families     is an unforgettable firsthand account of a people's response to genocide and what it tells us about humanity.

    This remarkable audiobook chronicles what has happened in Rwanda and neighboring states since 1994, when the Rwandan government called on everyone in the Hutu majority to murder everyone in the Tutsi minority. Though the killing was low-tech--largely by machete--it was carried out at shocking speed: some 800,000 people were exterminated in a hundred days. A Tutsi pastor, in a letter to his church president, a Hutu, used the chilling phrase that gives Philip Gourevitch his title.

    With keen dramatic intensity, Gourevitch frames the genesis and horror of Rwanda's "genocidal logic" in the anguish of its aftermath: the mass displacements, the temptations of revenge and the quest for justice, the impossibly crowded prisons and refugee camps. Through intimate portraits of Rwandans in all walks of life, he focuses on the psychological and political challenges of survival and on how the new leaders of postcolonial Africa went to war in the Congo when resurgent genocidal forces threatened to overrun central Africa.

    Can a country composed largely of perpetrators and victims create a cohesive national society? This moving contribution to the literature of witness tells us much about the struggle everywhere to forge sane, habitable political orders, and about the stubbornness of the human spirit in a world of extremity.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Audio
    Release dateApr 9, 2019
    ISBN9781250251916
    Author

    Philip Gourevitch

    Philip Gourevitch is the author of We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families. He is a staff writer for the New Yorker and editor of the Paris Review.

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    • 1/5
      White dude gives his (frankly unasked) unscrutinized colonial perspective. Not only is he dazzlingly unaware of his own implicit bias but the whole thing stinks of ignorance and neocolonialism. It obviously goes without saying he completely appropriated this story which could have been told far better by someone who was there and understands the actual geopolitical context. Save your time and read something else.
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      Money and contracts trump the best of intentions. Trump 2024