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We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families
Philip Gourevitch
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We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families
by Philip Gourevitch
—· 355 p· 1998
National Book Critics Circle AwardPEN Hessell-Tiltman Prizedarkhauntingreflectivetensephilosophical
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An unforgettable firsthand account of a people's response to genocide and what it tells us about humanity.
This remarkable debut book chronicles what has happened in Rwanda and neighboring states since 1994, when the Rwandan government called on everyone in the Hutu majority to murder everyone in the Tutsi minority. Though the killing was low-tech--largely by machete--it was carried out at shocking speed: some 800,000 people were exterminated in a hundred days. A Tutsi pastor, in a letter to hi…
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355
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4/5
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Thematic complexity
4/5
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Emotional depth
10
Historical Reporting
10
Prose
9
Narration
9
Political Insight
9
Pacing
8
Worldbuilding
6
Plot twists
4
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We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families
Philip Gourevitch
History
We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families
by Philip Gourevitch
— · —· 355 pages· 1998
National Book Critics Circle AwardPEN Hessell-Tiltman Prizedarkhauntingreflectivetensephilosophical
An unforgettable firsthand account of a people's response to genocide and what it tells us about humanity.
This remarkable debut book chronicles what has happened in Rwanda and neighboring states since 1994, when the Rwandan government called on everyone in the Hutu majority to murder everyone in the Tutsi minority. Though the killing was low-tech--largely by machete--it was carried out at shocking speed: some 800,000 people were exterminated in a hundred days. A Tutsi pastor, in a letter to hi…
Pages
355
DEBATE
Linguistic complexity
4/5
Complex
Thematic complexity
4/5
Rich
Rating
—
—
Emotional depth
10
Historical Reporting
10
Prose
9
Narration
9
Political Insight
9
Pacing
8
Worldbuilding
6
Plot twists
4
My journey
Status
Unread
Started
DNF
Finished
My rating
Burndown
Reading days
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