Gilbert Tuhabonye
Autor de This Voice in My Heart: A Genocide Survivor's Story of Escape, Faith, and Forgiveness
Obras de Gilbert Tuhabonye
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1974-11-22
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- Burundi
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Songa, Burundi
- Lugares de residencia
- Austin, Texas, USA
- Educación
- Abilene Christian University
- Ocupaciones
- runner
high school track coach
Miembros
Reseñas
Listas
Burundi (1)
Estadísticas
- Obras
- 1
- Miembros
- 104
- Popularidad
- #184,481
- Valoración
- 4.0
- Reseñas
- 4
- ISBNs
- 5
This review is from: The Running Man (Hardcover)
A compelling autobiography of the Burundian runner, where the narrative follows two strands: the main chapters follow his childhood, family, religion and education - but preceding each are a few pages taking us further into an account of That Day in 1993, when the Hutus rose up with machetes and turned on the Tutsis (to which tribe the author belongs).
Aged around 18 and away at boarding school, the author wakes on the day thinking of school exams and his hopes for an athletics scholarship to USA. But it soon becomes evident things are not as they should be, and unspeakable horrors lie ahead...
Extremely well written and tense-making, but inspirational too. I was well aware of Rwanda's genocide but not of Burundi's tragic history.… (más)