Description
| Product ID: | 9781939810786 |
| Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
| Country of Manufacture: | US |
| Title: | Igifu |
| Authors: | Author: Jordan Stump, Scholastique Mukasonga |
| Page Count: | 160 |
| Subjects: | Short stories, Short stories |
| Description: | Select Guide Rating An intense and personal collection of stories about grief and survival, spanning pre- and post- genocide Rwanda. 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. |
| Imprint Name: | Archipelago Books |
| Publisher Name: | Archipelago Books |
| Country of Publication: | GB |
| Publishing Date: | 2020-09-15 |
