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Bezig met laden... The Girl Who Smiled Beads: A Story of War and What Comes Afterdoor Clemantine Wamariya
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Four stars for the book, but I wish I could give infinite stars in an attempt to heal the suffering in this world. "I want to make people understand that boxing ourselves into tiny cubbies based on class, race, ethnicity, religion--anything, really--comes from a poverty of mind, a poverty of imagination. The world is full and cruel when we isolate ourselves." (177) "It's truly impossible to hold all the single experiences of suffering in your mind at the same time. ... You cannot hear each of their stories and recognize every individual as strong and special, and continue on with your day." (242) geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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"Clemantine Wamariya was six years old when her mother and father began to speak in whispers, when neighbors began to disappear, and when she heard the loud, ugly sounds her brother said were thunder. It was 1994, and in 100 days more than 800,000 people would be murdered in Rwanda and millions more displaced. Clemantine and her fifteen-year-old sister, Claire, ran and spent the next six years wandering through seven African countries searching for safety. They did not know whether their parents were alive. At age twelve, Clemantine and Claire were granted asylum in the United States. Raw, urgent, yet disarmingly beautiful, this book captures the true costs and aftershocks of war: what is forever lost, what can be repaired, the fragility and importance of memory. A riveting story of dislocation, survival."-- Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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Google Books — Bezig met laden... GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)967.57104History and Geography Africa Central Africa Democratic Republic of the Congo (Congo-Kinshasa); Rwanda & Burundi Rwanda and Burundi Rwanda 1962-LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde:
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PS. I first read this book in 2018 and reread it in 2023 because I am going through my bookshelves as I get ready to downsize my home. I remembered liking it very much, but I couldn't remember the details, and my previous review is rather sparse. In this memoir, Clemantine Wamariya chronicles her flight at the age of 6 from the Rwandan genocide in 1994, becoming a refugee with no safe place to land, traveling through a series of refugee camps in several different African countries for six years until she was adopted into a family in the US when she was 12. In addition to exposing the horrors she and her sister experienced, there were moments of grace and Wamariya's own self- reckoning with her victimhood and learning to feel safe. A powerful and important refugee story, in my opinion. ( )