The Antelope's Strategy: Living in Rwanda After the Genocide

Author:

Jean Hatzfeld

Publisher:

Picador

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Publisher

Picador

Publication Year 2010
ISBN-13

9780312429379

ISBN-10 9780312429379
Binding

Paperback

Number of Pages 256 Pages
Language (English)
Dimensions (Cms) 13.97 x 1.63 x 20.96
Weight (grms) 295

One hot May morning in 2003, a crowd of Hutus who had participated in the genocidal killings of April 1994 in Rwanda filed out of prison and into the sunshine, singing hallelujahs, their freedom granted by presidential pardon. As they returned to their old villages, Tutsi survivors watched as the people who had killed their neighbors and families returned to the homes around them. In The Antelope's Strategy, Jean Hatzfeld returns to Rwanda to talk with both Hutus and Tutsis struggling to live side by side. We hear the voices of killers who have been released from prison or returned from exile, and Tutsi escapees who must now tolerate them as neighbors. How are they managing with the process of reconciliation? Is such a thing even possible? The enormously varied answers Hatzfeld gets suggest that little faith in true recovery survives among those who lived through the genocide. This is an astonishing exploration of the pain of memory, the nature of stoic hope, and the ineradicability of grief.

Jean Hatzfeld

Jean Hatzfeld, an international reporter for Libération since 1973, is the author of many books, including Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speak (FSG, 2005). He lives in Paris.
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