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Small Country. Small Country (French: Petit pays) is a novel set in Burundi by the Franco-Rwandan rapper, songwriter and novelist, Gaël Faye. It was first published in France in August 2016 by Grasset, and has since been translated into 36 languages. [1] [2]
"Personal and intimate… Gaël Faye has evoked the darkest pages of contemporary Africa without tipping into pathos." – Alain Mabanckou, author of Broken Glass "Gaël Faye is a revelation. Small Country is a luminous and poignant novel about childhood, war, exile and identity… this is literature at its most powerful." – Le Parisien ...
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 ...
Jun 14, 2018 · Small Country by Gaël Faye (Hogarth, £12.99). To order a copy for £11.04, go to guardianbookshop.com or call 0330 333 6846. Free UK p&p over £10, online orders only.
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Aug 24, 2016 · July 22, 2019. Small Country is the powerful coming of age tale of Gaby, a young mixed-race boy growing up in Burundi. He lives an idyllic lifestyle with his French father, Rwandan mother and his sister. Gaby is a typical ten year old, likes cycling, watching movies and swimming in the river with his friends.
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However, Michel and Jacques started complaining about Africa and Africans – the food and the people in particular. Yvonne, Gabriel’s mother, took offence and continued to remain angry and bitter. Eventually, she moved out. The two children remained with their father. The book describes various events in their childhood.
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 ...
