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Running the rift : a novel / Naomi Benaron.
Van Pelt Library PS3602.E6565 R86 2012
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Benaron, Naomi, 1951-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Runners (Sports)--Fiction.
- Runners (Sports).
- Politics and government.
- Tutsi (African people).
- Rwanda.
- Tutsi (African people)--Fiction.
- Rwanda--Politics and government--1994---Fiction.
- Genre:
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- 365 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Chapel Hill, NC : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2012.
- Summary:
- Rwandan runner Jean Patrick Nkuba dreams of winning an Olympic gold medal and uniting his ethnically divided country, only to be driven from everyone he loves when the violence starts, after which he must find a way back to a better life.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 364-365).
- Winner, Bellwether Prize for Fiction, 2010
- ISBN:
- 9781616200428
- 1616200421
- OCLC:
- 712124009
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