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Not My Time to Die - by Yolande Mukagasana (Paperback)
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Highlights
- Yolande Mukagasana is a Rwandan nurse and mother of three children who likes wearing jeans and designer glasses.
- Author(s): Yolande Mukagasana
- 210 Pages
- Biography + Autobiography, Personal Memoirs
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About the Book
Yolande Mukagasana is a Rwandan nurse and mother of three children who likes wearing jeans and designer glasses. She runs her own clinic in Nyamirambo and is planning a party for her wedding anniversary. But when genocide starts everything changes.Book Synopsis
Yolande Mukagasana is a Rwandan nurse and mother of three children who likes wearing jeans and designer glasses. She runs her own clinic in Nyamirambo and is planning a party for her wedding anniversary. But when genocide starts everything changes. Targeted because she's a successful woman and a Tutsi, she flees for her life.
This gripping memoir describes the betrayal of friends and help that comes from surprising places. Quick-witted and courageous, Yolande never loses hope she will find her children alive.
Review Quotes
'This book was one of the first literary testimonies that I read in French about Rwanda. I found it profoundly moving -- both realistic and introspective. Thanks to this beautiful translation, it is at long last available to the English-speaking public.' - Véronique Tadjo
'Reading Yolande Mukagasana's book in French at the age of fifteen changed my life. I realized that genocide is not a mass crime but a single murder repeated hundreds of thousands of times. With this testimony the genocide is no longer just a historical event, it is instead the story of a woman, a mother, a Tutsi. And this is what makes Yolande's account universal.' - Gaël Faye