Scholastique Mukasonga would never have written if the Tutsi genocide had not taken place. In 1994, 37 members of his family were murdered in Rwanda. She, the graduate of the social work school in Burundi exiled in France, only returned to her country ten years later. She then made it her mission to restore her people’s honor by writing a gripping first autobiographical novel, Inyenzi or the Cockroaches, which she considers to be a “paper tomb”.
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