West Africa
Senegal
Contemporary
French
Fiction
Written shortly after Diop visited Rwanda as part of the Rwanda Writing Project, the novel reconstructs the 1994 genocide through multiple voices — perpetrators, victims, bystanders — at a technical school that became a massacre site.
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One of the most important literary responses to the Rwandan genocide
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editorial-summarynot primary textWritten shortly after Diop visited Rwanda as part of the Rwanda Writing Project, the novel reconstructs the 1994 genocide through multiple voices — perpetrators, victims, bystanders — at a technical school that became a massacre site. One of the most important literary responses to the Rwandan genocide
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