Publisher's Synopsis
Philip Gourevitch returns, twenty years after the genocide, to Rwanda and the eastern Congo. April 2014 marks the 20th anniversary of perhaps the most terrible single event in many of our lifetimes: the Rwandan genocide, in which at least 800,000 Tutsis were massacred and an entire region of Central Africa was convulsed and permanently changed by wave upon wave of refugees and fighting. Here, Gourevitch has returned to eastern Central Africa to talk to survivors, including those he interviewed in his earlier book, and reports vividly on this tumultuous, harsh and still traumatized region, in which everyone lives with 'It' - the genocide - everyone knows the perpetrators, everyone knows who failed or passed any number of moral tests in the following years.
