{"id":717,"date":"2020-12-27T11:54:04","date_gmt":"2020-12-27T09:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scholastiquemukasonga.net\/en\/?p=717"},"modified":"2020-12-27T12:06:37","modified_gmt":"2020-12-27T10:06:37","slug":"los-angeles-times-igifu-10-great-books-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholastiquemukasonga.net\/en\/los-angeles-times-igifu-10-great-books-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Los Angeles Times selected igifu among 10 great books 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The American daily <strong>Los Angeles Times<\/strong> chose <em><a href=\"https:\/\/scholastiquemukasonga.net\/en\/igifu\/\">Igifu<\/a><\/em> in its pick of the <em>10 Great Books that got lost in the noise of 2020.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment-arts\/books\/story\/2020-12-10\/10-books-that-got-lost-in-the-noise-of-2020\">Check out <\/a>Hillary Kelly&#8217;s full selection on the Los Angeles Times website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My collection of short stories L&#8217;igifu was translated by <em>Jordan Stump<\/em> and published by <strong>Archipelago Book<\/strong> in 2020.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\"><p> &#8220;In \u201cGrief,\u201d 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, \u201cher father, her mother, her brothers,  her sisters, her uncles, her aunts, her nephews, her nieces\u2026. 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.\u201d Mukasonga has been writing autobiographical stories about  her upbringing and Rwanda\u2019s genocide for years, but \u201cIgifu\u201d may be her  brightest, most eye-opening work yet. &#8220;<br><\/p><cite> <br> <em>Hillary Kelly du Los Angeles Times <\/em> <\/cite><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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&#8217;s full selection on the Los Angeles Times website. My collection of short stories L&#8217;igifu was translated by Jordan Stump and published by Archipelago Book in 2020. &#8220;In&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":720,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[129,39,102,128,10,105],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.10 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Los Angeles Times selected igifu among 10 great books 2020<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The American daily Los Angeles Times chose Igifu in its pick of the 10 Great Books that got lost in the noise of 2020. 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