{"id":704,"date":"2020-11-11T17:33:40","date_gmt":"2020-11-11T15:33:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scholastiquemukasonga.net\/en\/?p=704"},"modified":"2020-11-11T20:08:07","modified_gmt":"2020-11-11T18:08:07","slug":"jane-hu-reviews-igifu-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholastiquemukasonga.net\/en\/jane-hu-reviews-igifu-new-york-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Jane Hu reviewed Igifu in The New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2020\/11\/10\/books\/review\/danielle-evans-office-historical-corrections.html\">You can read<\/a> a new review by <em>Jane Hu<\/em> about my book &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/scholastiquemukasonga.net\/en\/igifu\/\"><em>Igifu<\/em><\/a>&#8221; (translated by <em>Jordan Stump<\/em>) in <strong>The New York Times<\/strong> Books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;<em>Igifu<\/em>&#8221; among the shortlist &#8220;New Story Collections Reconsider History and Upend Tradition&#8221; in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/nytimes\/?__cft__[0]=AZWgrWzHSe6F1Gg_YMAOHzWq9vwLTFYkfjKS3ovv9Qnty-nSkMANFQ8E6WxdLL1Hp6sp4i2qiT1U-jhi2hSqoRoQGRuuK3i_ZowMtYCPaQKB2i9cORjsLNODrBorBJqTiyrXBOXf2AZVvsJDn2XDLNP2&amp;__tn__=kK-R\">The New York Times<\/a>.   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p> \u201cIgifu\u201d depicts the lives of Rwanda\u2019s Tutsis from their exile in the  1960s to the genocide of the \u201990s. These stories follow the broad  strokes of the author\u2019s own life, though, unlike Mukasonga\u2019s prior books  \u201cCockroaches\u201d and \u201cThe Barefoot Woman,\u201d they are less explicitly  autobiographical. Instead, she mediates the personal through fable to  convey the sense of a collective past. <\/p><cite>Jan Hu &#8211; The New York Times Books<\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can read a new review by Jane Hu about my book &#8220;Igifu&#8221; (translated by Jordan Stump) in The New York Times Books. &#8220;Igifu&#8221; among the shortlist &#8220;New Story Collections Reconsider History and Upend Tradition&#8221; in The New York Times. \u201cIgifu\u201d depicts the lives of Rwanda\u2019s Tutsis from their exile in the 1960s to the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":711,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[39,126,41,17,10,105,62,127],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.10 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Jane Hu reviewed Igifu in The New York Times - Scholastique Mukasonga<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"You can read a new review by Jane Hu about my book &quot;Igifu&quot; (translated by Donald Stump, published by Archipelago Books) in The New York Times.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/scholastiquemukasonga.net\/en\/jane-hu-reviews-igifu-new-york-times\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Jane Hu reviewed Igifu in The New York Times - 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