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100 1 $aMushikiwabo, Louise.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2005082269
245 10 $aRwanda means the universe :$ba native's memoir of blood and bloodlines /$cLouise Mushikiwabo and Jack Kramer.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bSt. Martin's Press,$c2006.
300 $axvi, 367 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations, map ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
500 $aIncludes index.
520 1 $a"Louise Mushikiwabo is a Rwandan working as a translator in Washington when she learns that most of her family back home has been killed in a conspiracy meticulously planned by the state. First comes shock, then aftershock, three months of it, during which her worst fears are confirmed: The same state apparatus has duped millions of Rwandans into butchering nearly a million of their neighbors." "Years earlier, her brother Lando wrote her a letter she never got until now. Urged on by it, she rummages into their farm childhood, and into family corners alternately dark, loving, and humorous. She searches for stray mementos of the lost, then for their roots. What she finds are those and more - hints, roots, of the 1994 crime that killed her family. Her narrative takes the reader on a journey from the days the world and Rwanda discovered each other back to the colonial period when pseudoscientific ideas about race put the nation on a highway bound for the 1994 genocide." "Seven years of full-time collaboration by two writers - and the faith of family and friends - went into this emotionally charged work. Rwanda Means the Universe is at once a celebration of the lives of the lost and homage to their past, but it's no comfortable tribute. It's an expression of dogged hope in the face of modern evil."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aMushikiwabo, Louise.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2005082269
651 0 $aRwanda$xHistory$yCivil War, 1994$vPersonal narratives.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2010110420
651 0 $aRwanda$xHistory$yCivil War, 1994$xAtrocities.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008116783
650 0 $aGenocide$zRwanda.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008105129
650 0 $aTutsi (African people)$xCrimes against$zRwanda$xHistory$y20th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008113053
650 0 $aHutu (African people)$zRwanda$xPolitics and government$y20th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009126693
651 0 $aRwanda$xEthnic relations$xHistory$y20th century.
700 1 $aKramer, Jack,$d1940-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2005082266
856 42 $3Contributor biographical information$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0626/2005057441-b.html
856 42 $3Publisher description$uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0626/2005057441-d.html
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