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stellahadz's review against another edition
challenging
dark
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
4.0
L'histoire émouvante d'un jeune garçon qui grandit dans l'ombre du génocide rwandais et de la guerre civile burundaise. Ce serait un bon roman à explorer dans un cours d'histoire ou de français au secondaire.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Death, Genocide, and War
Moderate: Death of parent, Police brutality, Blood, Bullying, Child abuse, Injury/Injury detail, Grief, Mental illness, and Racism
Minor: Alcoholism and Vomit
jj2020's review against another edition
dark
emotional
sad
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? Yes
Content Warnings
Graphic: Genocide, War, Animal cruelty, Violence, and Racism
Moderate: Colonisation, Alcohol, Death of parent, Alcoholism, Bullying, and Gun violence
crazytourists_books's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
sad
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
4.0
The story of the book is set in Burundi (that shares borders and ethnic groups with Rwanda) in 1994, just before, during, and after the Tutsi and Twa genoside in Rwanda (by the Hutu, for those of you that are too young to remember). The protagonist is 10 or eleven years old, the age that I was that year.
Only I was safe in Athens, Greece, getting fragments of the news (no internet back then), and the protagonist of the book was there, in the middle of the "storm".
It is a simply written yet interesting book. The perspective of a young child, of the war and the genocide, might be more naive than that of an adult, but it can be equally heartbreaking.
My daughter is now ten, and I can't even imagine her reading about events like that, forget living them. I think I'll give her this book in a couple of years...
(If you are interested in the Rwandan civil war and genocide, I would strongly recommend the memoir of a survivor, "The girl who smiled beads".)
Only I was safe in Athens, Greece, getting fragments of the news (no internet back then), and the protagonist of the book was there, in the middle of the "storm".
It is a simply written yet interesting book. The perspective of a young child, of the war and the genocide, might be more naive than that of an adult, but it can be equally heartbreaking.
My daughter is now ten, and I can't even imagine her reading about events like that, forget living them. I think I'll give her this book in a couple of years...
(If you are interested in the Rwandan civil war and genocide, I would strongly recommend the memoir of a survivor, "The girl who smiled beads".)
Content Warnings
Graphic: Hate crime, Animal cruelty, Death, Genocide, Bullying, Physical abuse, Racism, Fire/Fire injury, Gore, Grief, Mental illness, Murder, Violence, and War
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