Cockroaches - Scholastique Mukasonga

Category: Adults, Autobiography & Biographies, Political
Language: English
Keywords: Africa African Literature Biography Memoir France History Memoir Nonfiction Politics Rwanda War

Written by Scholastique Mukasonga
Read by Akrosia Samson
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps
Unabridged

Imagine being born into a world where everything about you—the shape of your nose, the look of your hair, the place of your birth—designates you as an undesirable, an inferior, a menace, no better than a cockroach, something to be driven away and ultimately exterminated. Imagine being thousands of miles away while your family and friends are brutally and methodically slaughtered. Imagine being entrusted by your parents with the mission of leaving everything you know and finding some way to survive, in the name of your family and your people.

Scholastique Mukasonga’s Cockroaches is the story of growing up a Tutsi in Hutu-dominated Rwanda—the story of a happy child, a loving family, all wiped out in the genocide of 1994. A vivid, bittersweet depiction of family life and bond in a time of immense hardship, it is also a story of incredible endurance and the duty to remember that loss and those lost while somehow carrying on. Sweet, funny, wrenching, and deeply moving, Cockroaches is a window into an unforgettable world of love, grief, and horror.

Length: 4 hrs and 21 mins
Release date: 06-28-22