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

Name: We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families Stories from Rwanda
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ISBN: 9780374286972

ISBN-10: 0374286973

ISBN-13: 9780374286972

Edition: 1998

Authors: Philip Gourevitch

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An unforgettable firsthand account of a people's response to genocide and what it tells us about humanity. This remarkable debut book 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…

Book details

List price: $25.00
Copyright year: 1998
Publisher: Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Publication date: 9/30/1998
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 356
Size: 6.00" wide x 8.75" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 1.144
Language: English

Philip Gourevitch, a staff writer at "The New Yorker", lives in New York City. His last book, "We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda" (FSG, 1998), won the National Book Critics Circle & Los Angeles Times Book Awards.