Deogratias, a tale of Rwanda / J.P. Stassen ; [introduction by Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse].

Author: Stassen, Jean-Philippe
Uniform Title: Déogratias. English
Published: New York : First Second, an imprint of Roaring Brook Press, a division of Holtzbrink Publishing Holdings, 2018.
Copyright Date: ©2018
Edition: First American revised edition.
Physical Description: 78 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 23 cm
Additional Creators: Umubyeyi Mairesse, Beata, 1979-

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Translated from the French.

Summary

"The 2000 winner of the Goscinny Prize for outstanding graphic novel script, this is the harrowing tale of the Tutsi genocide in Rwanda, as seen through the eyes of a boy named Deogratias. He is an ordinary teenager, in love with a girl named Bénigne, but Deogratias is a Hutu and Bénigne is a Tutsi who dies in the genocide, and Deogratias himself plays a part in her death. As the story circles around but never depicts the terror and brutality of an entire country descending into violence, we watch Deogratias in his pursuit of Bénigne, and we see his grief and descent into madness following her death, as he comes to believe he is a dog."--us.macmillan.com.

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1250189640
9781250189646

Note

Originally published in Belgium in 2000 under the title Déogratias by Dupuis, Marcinelle.

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