I’m delighted to announce that my book “The Barefoot Woman” translated from french “La Femme aux pieds nus” by Jordan Stump will be released this April 2022 on Daunt books my publisher in UK 🇬🇧

A National Book Award Finalist

‘The Barefoot Woman is a different act of filial devotion: a rich retelling of the author’s village childhood.’ New Statesman

‘An extraordinary tribute to “Mother Courage”, as well as a timely reminder of war’s devastation.’ Observer

‘A lovely, tender memoir.’ Telegraph

‘In sentences of great beauty and restraint, Mukasonga rescues a million souls from the collective noun “genocide”, returning them to us as individual human beings.’ Zadie Smith

‘A daughter’s lyrical tribute [and] a resonant revelation.’ Yvonne Adhiambo Owuor, author of Dust

‘It resonates with love for community-in-exile, for those violently lost, and above all for the creative endurance of mother courage.’ Ruby Cowling, author of This Paradise

‘The memories of childhood, a lost home, a mother who sacrificed herself are the pounding heart of the book . . . A work that anyone who might read it will remember.’ Literary Hub, Best Translated Novels of the Decade

‘The Barefoot Woman powerfully continues the tradition of women’s work it so lovingly recounts. In Mukasonga’s village, the women were in charge of the fire. They stoked it, kept it going all night, every night. In her work . . . [Mukasonga] has become the keeper of the flame.’ New York Times