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The New York Times review : Barefoot Woman

Reviews - Scholastique - January 10, 2019

The New York Times - Book review : Barefoot Woman by Scholastique Mukasonga - Rwanda genocide literature memoir

Journalist’s Julian Lucas for The New York Times reviewed my book “The Barefoot Woman” in his essay intituled “Turning the ‘Curse of Ham’ Into a Blessing“. Thanks to him for the enlightening African comparative study. My third book translate in english “The Barefoot Woman” is out now on Archipelago Books

Mukasonga is a master of subtle shifts in register — a skill inherited, perhaps, from the Rwandan traditions of intricate courtesy and assiduous privacy that Stefania maintained. She turns everything over restlessly: In her prose, poignant reminiscences sharpen into bitter ironies, or laments reveal flashes of comedy, determination, defiance.

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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 37 members of her family, her mother being one of them.

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