You can read a new review by Jane Hu about my book “Igifu” (translated by Jordan Stump) in The New York Times Books.

“Igifu” among the shortlist “New Story Collections Reconsider History and Upend Tradition” in The New York Times.

“Igifu” depicts the lives of Rwanda’s Tutsis from their exile in the 1960s to the genocide of the ’90s. These stories follow the broad strokes of the author’s own life, though, unlike Mukasonga’s prior books “Cockroaches” and “The Barefoot Woman,” they are less explicitly autobiographical. Instead, she mediates the personal through fable to convey the sense of a collective past.

Jan Hu – The New York Times Books