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| Award | Year | Status | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|
| Prix Renaudot | 2024 | Winner |
About This Book
A novel about a young man who returns to Rwanda, the country of his mother's birth, to confront the legacy of the 1994 genocide, exploring how the truth of an atrocity is transmitted between generations.
About the Author
Gaël Faye is a Franco-Rwandan novelist, rapper, and singer-songwriter born in 1982 in Bujumbura, Burundi, to a French father and a Rwandan mother. He fled Burundi during the civil war in 1995 and settled in France, where he built a career in music before turning to fiction. His music is known for its lyrical engagement with memory, displacement, and identity. Read more →
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