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Author / Creator:	Mukasonga, Scholastique, author.
Uniform title:	Iguifou. English
Edition:	First Archipelago Books edition.
Imprint:	Brooklyn, NY : Archipelago Books, 2020. ©2020
Description:	110 pages ; 18 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Genocide -- Rwanda -- Fiction. Survival -- Fiction. Genocide. Rwanda -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction. Rwanda. Short stories. Autobiographical fiction. Social problem fiction. Fiction. Short stories. Short stories. Autobiographical fiction. Social problem fiction.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12392337

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Other authors / contributors:	Stump, Jordan, 1959- translator.
ISBN:	9781939810786 1939810787 9781939810793
Notes:	"First published as L'Iguifou by Editions Gallimard, Paris, 2010" -- title page verso.
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."--

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Call Number:	PQ3989.3.M843 I3813 2020
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