Small country
Faye, Gaël, 1982-2018
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Burundi, 1992. For ten-year-old Gabriel, life in his comfortable expat neighbourhood of Bujumbura with his French father, Rwandan mother and little sister, Ana, is something close to paradise. These are happy, carefree days spent with his friends sneaking cigarettes and stealing mangoes, swimming in the river and riding bikes in the streets they have turned into their kingdom. But dark clouds are gathering over this small country, and soon their peaceful idyll will shatter when Burundi and neighbouring Rwanda are brutally hit by war and genocide. A haunting and luminous novel of extraordinary power, Small Country describes a devastating end of innocence as seen through the eyes of a young child caught in the maelstrom of history. It is a stirring tribute not only to a time of tragedy, but also to the bright days that came before it.
Main title:
Small country / Gaëll Faye ; translated from the French by Sarah Ardizzone.
Author:
Faye, Gaël, 1982-, authorArdizzone, Sarah, 1970-, translator
Imprint:
London : Hogarth, an imprint of Vintage, 2018.©2018
Collation:
185 pages ; 23 cm.
Notes:
Originally published in France as Petit Pays by Éditions Grasset in 2016.Translated from the French.
ISBN:
9781784741594 (hardback)
Dewey class:
843.92
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
345068
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brighton Library | Adult Fiction - General | FAYE | Available |