Igifu, Scholastique Mukasonga ; translated from the French by Jordan Stump
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Igifu, Scholastique Mukasonga ; translated from the French by Jordan Stump
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Literary Form
short stories
Main title
Igifu
Oclc number
1132237858
Responsibility statement
Scholastique Mukasonga ; translated from the French by Jordan Stump
Summary
"Scholastique Mukasonga's autobiographical stories rend a glorious Rwanda from the obliterating force of recent history, conjuring the noble cows of her home or the dew-swollen grass they graze on. In the title story, five-year-old Colomba tells of a merciless overlord, hunger or igifu, gnawing away at her belly. She searches for sap at the bud of a flower, scraps of sweet potato at the foot of her parent's bed, or a few grains of sorghum in the floor sweepings. Igifu becomes a dizzying hole in her stomach, a plunging abyss into which she falls. In a desperate act of preservation, Colomba's mother gathers enough sorghum to whip up a nourishing porridge, bringing Colomba back to life. This elixir courses through each story, a balm to soothe the pains of those so ferociously fighting for survival."--, Provided by publisher
Table Of Contents
Igifu -- The glorious cow -- Fear -- The curse of beauty -- Grief
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- Tutsi (African people) -- Rwanda -- Fiction
- Social problem fiction
- short stories
- Genocide -- Rwanda -- Fiction
- French fiction -- Translations into English
- Rwanda -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Short stories
- Rwanda -- Histoire -- 20e siècle -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Nouvelles
- Autobiographical fiction
- Survival -- Fiction
- Habiletés de survie -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Tutsi (Peuple d'Afrique) -- Rwanda -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
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- Genre6
- Subject13
- Tutsi (African people) -- Rwanda -- Fiction
- Social problem fiction
- short stories
- Genocide -- Rwanda -- Fiction
- French fiction -- Translations into English
- Rwanda -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
- Short stories
- Rwanda -- Histoire -- 20e siècle -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Nouvelles
- Autobiographical fiction
- Survival -- Fiction
- Habiletés de survie -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Tutsi (Peuple d'Afrique) -- Rwanda -- Romans, nouvelles, etc
- Content1
- Author1
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- Translator1
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