The Barefoot Woman by Scholastique Mukasonga audiobook

The Barefoot Woman

By Scholastique Mukasonga
Translated by  Jordan Stump
Read by Waceke Wambaa

Blackstone Publishing

Unabridged

Format : Library CD (In Stock)
  • 3 Formats: CD
  • 3 Formats: Library CD
  • 3 Formats: MP3 CD

  • ISBN: 9798212025362

  • ISBN: 9798212025355

  • ISBN: 9798212025379

Runtime: 4.19 Hours
Category: Nonfiction/Biography & Autobiography
Audience: Adult
Language: English
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Summary

Summary

Finalist for the National Book Award for Translated Fiction

A Literary Hub Pick of Best Translated Books of the Decade

A Bookish Pick of Must-Reads

A moving, unforgettable tribute to a Tutsi woman who did everything to protect her children from the Rwandan genocide, by the daughter who refuses to let her family’s story be forgotten

The Barefoot Woman is the story of the author’s mother, a fierce, loving woman who for years protected her family from the violence encroaching upon them in pre-genocide Rwanda. Recording her memories of their life together in spare, wrenching prose, Mukasonga preserves her mother’s voice in a haunting work of art.

Editorial Reviews

Editorial Reviews

“A living-record document, the voice of culture, tradition, and hope.” —World Literature Today
“Radiant with love…The Barefoot Woman powerfully continues the tradition of women’s work it so lovingly recounts.” —New York Times
“A profoundly affecting memoir of a mother lost to ethnic violence.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review)
“A powerful work of witness and memorial…[that] rescues a million souls from the collective noun ‘genocide,’ returning them to us as individual human beings, who lived, laughed, meddled in each other’s affairs, worked, decorated their houses, raised children, told stories.” —Zadie Smith, New York Times bestselling author
“This is an important book written for a strong and loving woman.” —Bookish

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Author

Author Bio: Scholastique Mukasonga

Author Bio: Scholastique Mukasonga

Scholastique Mukasonga is an award-winning French Rwandan author of novels, memoirs, and short stories. Born in Rwanda in 1956, she experienced from childhood the violence and humiliation of the ethnic conflicts that shook her country. In 1960, her family was displaced to the polluted and underdeveloped Bugesera district of Rwanda. She was later forced to flee to Burundi. She settled in France in 1992, only two years before the brutal genocide of the Tutsi swept through Rwanda. In the aftermath, she learned that thirty-seven of her family members had been massacred.

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Details

Details

Available Formats : CD, Library CD, MP3 CD
Category: Nonfiction/Biography & Autobiography
Runtime: 4.19
Audience: Adult
Language: English

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