Scholastique Mukasonga, trans. from the French by Melanie Mauthner. Archipelago (Random, dist.), $18 trade paper (248p) ISBN 978-0-914671-03-9
In Rwanda, the strife between the Hutu majority and the Tutsi minority is a constant source of tension. In Mukasonga's debut novel, this conflict is expressed through the microcosm of Our Lady of the Nile, a Catholic boarding school for young ladies.
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Scholastique Mukasonga, trans. from the French by Jordan Stump. Archipelago, $16 trade paper (152p) ISBN 978-1-939810-04-5
Decades after the 1994 Rwandan genocide that took the lives of the author’s parents and siblings, Mukasonga (Cockroaches) looks back at her resilient, resourceful mother Stefania in this intense tale of an exiled Tutsi family struggling to retain...
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Scholastique Mukasonga, trans. from the French by Jordan Stump. Archipelago, $18 (110p) ISBN 978-1-939810-78-6
French Rwandan writer Mukasonga’s superb collection (after the memoir The Barefoot Woman) conjures the lives of Rwandan Tutsis dwelling on the margins of society following the Hutu revolution in 1959 and during waves of genocidal killings over the...
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Scholastique Mukasonga, trans. from the French by Mark Polizzotti. Archipelago, $16 trade paper (160p) ISBN 978-1-953861-36-8
Mukasonga (Igifu) draws on Rwanda’s colonial history and ancient myths for an intriguing theological satire. In the opener, “Ruzagayura,” set in the aftermath of the 1943 famine, characters variously blame the disaster on Hitler, paganism, and...
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Scholastique Mukasonga, trans. from the French by Jordan Stump. Archipelago (PRH, dist.), $18 trade paper (250p) ISBN 978-0-914671-53-4
In this harrowing autobiographical novel, a Rwandan woman recounts a girlhood riven by the vicious war between the Tutsis and the Hutus, a conflict that left 37 of her family members murdered in the 1994 genocide. Opening with her family’s expulsion
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Scholastique Mukasonga, trans. from the French by Mark Polizzotti. Archipelago, $18 trade paper (138p) ISBN 978-1-953861-94-8
Rwandan French writer Mukasonga (Kibogo) delivers a dazzling and witty narrative of a Black Christian cult in early 20th-century Rwanda. Shortly after the country is captured by Belgium during WWI, a pagan chief flouts the new white Catholic clergy...
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