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Aug 24, 2016 · 4.22. 21,250 ratings2,157 reviews. A prize-winning bestseller in its native France, a vivid and evocative coming-of-age tale, set against the backdrop of the Rwandan genocide and the civil war in Burundi, of a young boy's childhood innocence shattered by the brutal tides of history. In 1992, Gabriel, ten years old, lives in Burundi in a ...
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Aug 30, 2018 · Small country. by Gaël Faye. Gaël Faye – Small country (2016) “Genocide is an oil slick: those who don’t drown in it are polluted for life” (154), states the child narrator of Faye’s novel after his ravaged Rwandan-born mother has returned from that “small country” to their own, Burundi: the country actually referred to in the ...
without the country calling to me. A secret sound, a scent on the breeze, a certain afternoon light, a gesture, sometimes silence is enough to stir my childhood memories. "You won't find anything there, apart from ghosts and a pile of ruins," Ana keeps telling me. She refuses to hear another word about that "cursed country." I listen and I ...
About Small Country. Already an international sensation and prize-winning bestseller in France, an evocative coming-of-age story of a young boy, a lost childhood and a shattered homeland. SHORTLISTED FOR THE ALBERTINE PRIZE • NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BYESQUIRE• LONGLISTED FOR THE ANDREW CARNEGIE MEDAL FOR EXCELLENCE IN ...
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A novel of extraordinary power and beauty, Small Country describes an end of innocence as seen through the eyes of a child caught in the maelstrom of history. Shot through with shadows and light, tragedy and humor, it is a stirring tribute not only to a dark chapter in Africa’s past, but also to the bright days that preceded it. Read less.
Aug 27, 2020 · Review: Small Country: An African Childhood. 27/08/2020 - Éric Barbier successfully and faithfully adapts Gaël Faye’s excellent novel, about the Rwandan genocide seen through the eyes of a mixed race child from neighbouring Burundi. “We walked into a great nightmare.”. Unfortunately, childhood sometimes becomes – at first ...
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Jun 6, 2019 · Small Country is a luminous and poignant novel about childhood, war, exile and identity… this is literature at its most powerful. Le Parisien Magazine. A magnificent book… a master-stroke of a first novel. Le Parisien. A literary phenomenon. Mehdi Ba, Jeune Afrique. Small Country is a big novel. Canard Enchainé. A literary revelation ...
