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Love prevails : one couple's story of faith and survival in the Rwandan genocide / Jean Bosco Rutagengwa with Daniel G. Groody.
Van Pelt Library DT450.443.R88 A3 2019
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rutagengwa, Jean (Jean Bosco), author.
- Groody, Daniel G., 1964- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Rutagengwa, Jean (Jean Bosco).
- Rutagengwa, Jean.
- Genocide survivors--Rwanda--Biography.
- Genocide survivors.
- Rwandans.
- Religious life.
- Rwanda--History--Civil War, 1994--Personal narratives.
- Rwanda.
- History.
- Genocide--Rwanda--History--20th century.
- Genocide.
- Rwandans--Religious life.
- Genre:
- Personal narratives.
- Biographies.
- History.
- Autobiographies.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 191 pages : Illustrations ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Maryknoll, New York : Orbis Books, [2019]
- Summary:
- "Twenty-five years ago in April 1994, a savage campaign of genocide was unleashed against the Tutsis of Rwanda. The violence of a hundred days left as many as a million people dead. This personal narrative tells the story of two survivors--Jean Bosco and his fiancée Christine. While most of their family members perished, they managed to escape to what is now famous as the Hotel Rwanda. Their story of survival is at once a love story and a harrowing inside look at what happens when a country is overrun by evil. But it is also a story of faith--an effort to find God in the midst of horror--and of their subsequent struggles to find meaning, healing, and reconciliation"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- The last gathering
- Rwanda: a land of life, love, and war
- The beginning of the end
- Strangers in our native land
- Home
- Rwanda: the country of cold peace
- The rising of the magma
- A country on dynamite
- The smell of death
- Angels of life
- The Swiss village
- A glimpse of hell
- Is this really happening?
- Gamble with death
- The Mille Collines Hotel
- Love is stronger than death
- Praying the novena
- Searching for the way out
- The swap
- Facing the truth
- An intellectual city out of its mind
- Nothing makes sense anymore
- Life must go on
- Live and let live
- Remember
- do not hold grudges
- Epilogue: a new life in a new world.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Rutagengwa, Jean (Jean Bosco), author. Love prevails
- ISBN:
- 9781626983144
- 1626983143
- OCLC:
- 1057306431
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