| Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speak Contributor(s): Hatzfeld, Jean (Author), Coverdale, Linda (Translator), Sontag, Susan (Preface by) |
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ISBN: 0312425031 ISBN-13: 9780312425036 Publisher: Picador USA OUR PRICE: $19.80 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2006 Annotation: A veteran foreign correspondent reports on the results of his interviews with nine Hutus who helped to kill 50,000 out of their 59,000 Tutsi neighbors. This testimony of the Rwanda horror reconsiders the foundation of human morality and ethics. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Africa - Central |
| Dewey: 967.571 |
| Physical Information: 0.71" H x 5.52" W x 8.38" (0.53 lbs) 272 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1990's |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: During the spring of 1994, in a tiny country called Rwanda, some 800,000 people were hacked to death, one by one, by their neighbors in a gruesome civil war. Several years later, journalist Jean Hatzfeld traveled to Rwanda to interview ten participants in the killings, eliciting extraordinary testimony from these men about the genocide they perpetrated. As Susan Sontag wrote in the preface, Machete Season is a document that everyone should read . . . because making] the effort to understand what happened in Rwanda . . . is part of being a moral adult. |
Contributor Bio(s): Hatzfeld, Jean: - Jean Hatzfeld, an international reporter for Libération since 1973, is the author of many books, including Machete Season and The Antelope's Strategy on Rwanda as well as books on the war in Croatia and Bosnia. He lives in Paris.Sontag, Susan: - Susan Sontag was the author of four novels, including The Benefactor, Death Kit, The Volcano Lover, and In America, which won the 2000 National Book Award for fiction; a collection of stories, I, etcetera; several plays, including Alice in Bed; and nine works of essays, among then On Photography, which won the National Books Critics Circle Award for criticism. In 2001, Sontag was awarded the Jerusalem Prize for the body of her work. She died in New York City in 2004. |