Gaël Faye

Jacaranda (eBook, ePUB)

Übersetzer: Ardizzone, Sarah

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Faced with the prospect of having to repeat a year in school, twelve-year-old Milan tells his parents the first lie he can think of: his bad grades are due to the genocide in Rwanda, his mother's homeland. In reality, he knows little about Rwanda or his mother's past, which she has kept secret. Soon after, Claude arrives, a boy from Rwanda with a mysterious wound and shadowy backstory. Thrilled to have a new playmate, Milan treats Claude as a brother until one day, he is gone, back to Rwanda as quickly as he came.

Four years later, Milan travels for the first time to Rwanda, encountering a beguiling country and family members he never knew existed. He reunites with Claude and spends time with Eusebia, his mother's childhood friend, who lives with her grandmother Rosalie and her newborn baby Stella. He returns to Rwanda again 7 years later to see Claude testify in the gacaca trials in front of the men responsible for killing his family.

Over the course of many years, Milan will return to Rwanda again and again, always confronting new sides of himself and those he loves. Meanwhile, Stella wants to tell Rosalie's life story, which becomes the story of the country's path towards justice through testimony. Spanning generations and time, Jacaranda is a rich and deeply felt portrait of a man seeking to understand his family and his nation as it heals from the unthinkable.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Vintage Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. August 2026
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781529955347
• Artikelnr.: 75840049

Autorenporträt

French-Rwandan Gaël Faye is an author, composer and hip hop artist. He was born in 1982 in Burundi, and has a Rwandan mother and French father. In 1995, after the outbreak of the civil war and the Rwandan genocide, the family moved to France. Gaël studied finance and worked in London for two years for an investment fund, then he left London to embark on a career of writing and music.

He is as influenced by Creole literature as he is by hip hop culture, and released an album in 2010 with the group Milk Coffee & Sugar. In 2013, his first solo album, Pili Pili sur un Croissant au Beurre, appeared. It was recorded between Bujumbura and Paris, and is filled with a plethora of musical influences: rap laced with soul and jazz, semba, Congolese rumba... In 2018 he received the prestigious Victoires de la Musique Award.

Small Country is his first novel. It was a huge bestseller in France, winning the Prix Goncourt des Lycéens 2016, and is being published in thirty territories worldwide.

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