Name: All Your Children, Scattered By Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse
SKU: 9781787704053
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All Your Children, Scattered by Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse

Timeless, vivid and utterly essential. Fergal Keane, author of The Madness

AN AWARD WINNING NOVEL FOLLOWING THREE GENERATIONS TORN APART BY THE TUTSI GENOCIDE

Blanche returns to Rwanda after building a life in Bordeaux with her husband and young son, Stokely. Reuniting with her mother Immaculata, old wounds are reopened for both mother and daughter while Stokely, caught between two countries, tries to understand where he comes from and where he belongs.

Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse's unforgettable debut novel follows three generations torn apart by the genocide against the Tutsis, as they try to reconnect with one another, rebuild broken links and find their place in today's world.

WHAT READERS ARE SAYING

Beautiful and breath-taking. Lizzy on Netgalley

This is a book to read and re-read. Jo Ann on Goodreads

This book was intense and filled me with emotion... Truly memorable and lyrical. Rachel on Netgalley

Raw, heartfelt and full of pain [with] so many poetic and spine tingling quotes. Sharmila on Netgalley

A literary feat through and through. Thomas on Goodreads

I just can't recommend it enough. Kacey on Netgalley

A beautiful and heartbreaking book. Elizabeth on Goodreads

All Your Children, Scattered Reviews

Viscerally powerful.

* Financial Times *

Searing... a poignant meditation on the violence that ruptured so many lives. Mairesse's lyrical prose, translated by Alison Anderson, is mesmerising.

* The Observer *

Silence, muteness, buried pain, the guarding of long-held secrets, obfuscation and the disinclination to discuss traumatic experience - all inflect this lyrical, subtle narrative, which takes a sideways approach to the shipwreck of a nation in Rwanda after the genocide of the Tutsi in 1994. Focusing on female perspectives, All Your Children, Scattered ripples outwards from this central catastrophe, moving back and forth in time; Mairesse explores family matters with great specificity, while never diminishing the scale of the tragedy.

* TLS *

Clear-eyed, rich prose..... a book of deep sorrow and profound dignity, a commentary both on the violent legacy of colonisation and the pitilessness of human nature.

* Irish Times *

About Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse

Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse was born in Butare, Rwanda in 1979. Surviving the genocide against the Tutsis, she moved to France in 1994 to study political science and work for humanitarian causes. She is now an acclaimed novelist and poet. Alison Anderson is a literary translator and author of three novels, Hidden Latitudes, Darwin's Wink and The Summer Guest. She has translated over thirty novels from French, including Muriel Barbery's The Elegance of the Hedgehog and the works by Nobel laureate JMG Le Clezio.

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GOR013203233

ISBN 13

9781787704053

ISBN 10

178770405X

Title

All Your Children, Scattered by Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse

Author

Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse

Condition

Used - Very Good

Binding type

Paperback

Publisher

Europa Editions (UK) Ltd

Year published

20230223

Number of pages

192

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N/A

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