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Kibogo’s story is reserved for the evening’s end, when women sit around a fire drinking honeyed brew, when just a few are able to stave off sleep. With heads nodding, one faithful storyteller will weave the old legends of the hillside, stories which church missionaries have done everything in their power to expunge. More about this book >
The Barefoot Woman is Scholastique Mukasonga’s loving, funny, devastating tribute to her mother Stefania, a tireless protector of her children, a keeper of Rwandan tradition even in the cruelest and bleakest of exiles, a sage, a wit, and in the end a victim, like almost the entire family, of the Rwandan genocide. More about this book >
Nicholas Elliott, reads for Scholastique Mukasonga, and Mark Polizzotti at the 2022 Finalist Reading
Scholastique Mukasonga was born in Rwanda in 1956. She settled in France in 1992, only two years before the brutal genocide of the Tutsi swept through Rwanda. Her groundbreaking books include: the debut novel Our Lady of the Nile, Cockroaches (chosen by the New York Times as one of the 50 best memoirs of the last 50 years), Igifu, and National Book Award Finalist The Barefoot Woman, translated by Jordan Stump. In 2021, she won the Simone de Beauvoir Prize for Women’s Freedom.
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