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100 1 a| Monénembo, Tierno,d| 1947-=| ^A192685;

240 10 a| Aîné des orphelins.l| English=| ^A625587;

245 14 a| The oldest orphan = :b| L'aîné des orphelins /c| Tierno Monénembo ; translated by Monique Fleury Nagem ; with an introduction by Adele King.;

300 a| xiii, 96 pages ;c| 23 cm;

336 a| text2| rdacontent;

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504 a| Includes bibliographical references.;

520 a| Tierno Monénembo was among the African authors invited to Rwanda after the 1994 Tutsi-Hutu massacre to "write genocide into memory." In his novel The Oldest Orphan, that is precisely what Monénembo does, to devastating effect. Powerful testimony to an unspeakable historical reality, this story is told by an adolescent on death row in a prison in Kigali, the capital of Rwanda. Dispassionately, almost cynically, the teenager Faustin tells his tale, alternating between his days in jail, his adventures wandering the countryside after his parents and most of the people of his village have been massacred, and his escapades as a cheerful hoodlum in the streets of Kigali. Only slowly does the full horror of his parents' death and his own experience return to Faustin. His realization strikes the reader with shattering force, for it carries in its wake the impossible but inescapable questions presented by such a murderous episode of history and such a crippling experience for a child, a people, and a nation.;

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700 1 a| Nagem, Monique F.,d| 1941-=| ^A505096;

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The oldest orphan = : L'aîné des orphelins / Tierno Monénembo ; translated by Monique Fleury Nagem ; with an introduction by Adele King.

Author/creator	Monénembo, Tierno, 1947-
Other author	Nagem, Monique F., 1941-
Format	Book
Publication Info	Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, ©2004.
Description	xiii, 96 pages ; 23 cm
Supplemental Content	Table of contents
Subjects	Rwandan Genocide, Rwanda, 1994--Fiction. Genocide--Rwanda. --Fiction. Political atrocities--Rwanda. --Fiction. Rwanda--History. --Civil War, 1994. --Fiction.

Uniform title	Aîné des orphelins. English
Abstract	Tierno Monénembo was among the African authors invited to Rwanda after the 1994 Tutsi-Hutu massacre to "write genocide into memory." In his novel The Oldest Orphan, that is precisely what Monénembo does, to devastating effect. Powerful testimony to an unspeakable historical reality, this story is told by an adolescent on death row in a prison in Kigali, the capital of Rwanda. Dispassionately, almost cynically, the teenager Faustin tells his tale, alternating between his days in jail, his adventures wandering the countryside after his parents and most of the people of his village have been massacred, and his escapades as a cheerful hoodlum in the streets of Kigali. Only slowly does the full horror of his parents' death and his own experience return to Faustin. His realization strikes the reader with shattering force, for it carries in its wake the impossible but inescapable questions presented by such a murderous episode of history and such a crippling experience for a child, a people, and a nation.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references.
LCCN	2003009666
ISBN	0803232241 (hardcover : alk. paper)
ISBN	0803282850 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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