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Cockroaches
A work of Non-fiction by Scholastique Mukasonga
Subgenres:
- Memoir,
- Rwandan Genocide,
- Forced Displacement
This book is for you if you're into...
- Memoirs confronting the Rwandan genocide with intimate family detail
- Lyrical writing that finds beauty in everyday moments amid suffering
- Narratives exploring displacement and the lasting impact of loss
Mukasonga unsparingly resurrects the horrors of the Rwandan genocide while lyrically recording the quieter moments of daily life with her family—a moving tribute to all those who are displaced, who suffer.
Scholastique Mukasonga's Cockroaches is a compelling chronicle of the author's childhood in the years leading up to the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
In a spare and penetrating tone, Mukasonga brings to life the scenes of her family's forced displacement from Rwanda to neighboring Burundi. With a view made lucid through time and pain, Mukasonga erodes the distance between her present and her past, resurrecting and paying homage to her family members who were massacred in the genocide, but also, in movingly simple language, the beauty present in quiet, daily moments with her loved ones.
As lyrical as it is tragic, Cockroaches is Mukasonga's tribute to her family's suffering and to the lingering grip of the dead on the living.
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