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Los Angeles Times selected igifu among 10 great books 2020

News, Reviews - Scholastique - December 27, 2020

Los Angeles Times selects igifu among 10 great books 2020

The American daily Los Angeles Times chose Igifu in its pick of the 10 Great Books that got lost in the noise of 2020.

Check out Hillary Kelly’s full selection on the Los Angeles Times website.

My collection of short stories L’igifu was translated by Jordan Stump and published by Archipelago Book in 2020.

“In “Grief,” the final story in this trim collection, Mukasonga writes about a young woman very much like herself, abroad in France in the early 1990s when she receives a letter from her native Rwanda. It contains a long list of names, “her father, her mother, her brothers, her sisters, her uncles, her aunts, her nephews, her nieces…. This was now the list of her dead, of everyone who had died far away from her, without her, and there was nothing she could do for them, not even die with them.” Mukasonga has been writing autobiographical stories about her upbringing and Rwanda’s genocide for years, but “Igifu” may be her brightest, most eye-opening work yet. “


Hillary Kelly du Los Angeles Times
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Scholastique Mukasonga is a Rwandan author living in France. She was born in Gikongoro Province in 1956. Mukasonga left Rwanda before the Rwandan genocide, which killed 27 members of her family, her mother being one of them.

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