Running the Rift
A Novel
Book - 2012 | 1st ed,
Rwandan runner Jean Patrick Nkuba dreams of winning an Olympic gold medal and uniting his ethnically divided country, only to be driven from everyone he loves when the violence starts, after which he must find a way back to a better life.
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Publisher:
Chapel Hill, NC : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2012
Edition:
1st ed,
ISBN:
9781616200428
1616200421
1616200421
Call Number:
FICTION BENARON 2012
Characteristics:
365 pages ; 24 cm
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List - Multcolib recommends: Great writing and engaging plots, with a dose of grief
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Jun 30, 2013
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Jun 30, 2013
Rwandan runner Jean Patrick Nkuba dreams of winning an Olympic gold medal and uniting his ethnically divided country, only to be driven from everyone he loves when the violence starts, after which he must find a way back to a better life. Winner of the PEN/Bellwether Prize.
Rwandan runner Jean Patrick Nkuba dreams of winning an Olympic gold medal and uniting his ethnically divided country, only to be driven from everyone he loves when the violence starts, after which he must find a way back to a better life.
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Add a CommentTotally engrossing. Although fiction, it is based upon facts down to the the dates of consequence that lead to the genocide. There was a moment, about 3/4 into the book that I almost stopped reading since I knew what would happen next to most of the characters I fell in love with... but I kept reading and so glad I did. It's a horrifying, spellbinding read that helps me understand the Rwandan experience. When a country is so culturally isolated and events are unbelievable to the common Westerner, it creates a vacuum that the Rwandan people found themselves in. However, aside from one comment in the book (about there being no natural resources for The West to justify getting involved in correcting the humanitarian crisis) I still don't understand how the world didn't intervene in this horrific history. Tragic. Read this if you want to learn more about Rwandan history and the human spirit.
Good book, every chapter a different character who's paths cross in someway. Enjoyed the book.
Excellent book! I really enjoyed the characters, and I learned a ton about what happened in Rwanda in the 1990s. The book could be depressing, but it is not.
I am so thankful I came across this book. I've always been interested (horrified) by what happened in Rwanda in the nineties. This was a wonderful book which also contained a lot of facts about the civil uprising. I highly recommend this book to anyone who can stomach it.
A wonderful journey into the world of young athletes, love and war in distant lands.
I am extremely disappoint. I am on Page 272 and am still waiting to be engaged. Jean Patrick seems to have no substance in his character. To be extremely blunt, I think this book sucks. I will keep reading it with the hopes of a turn around because I did make a commitment to finish it.
Jean Patrick, Ruandan athlete & runner, runs into the heart of the Hutu & Tutsi massacre in 1994. Compelling! Bellwether prize.
I didn't care for this book - too many foreign terms that were not well translated and took too long in developing. Got to page 90 and ended it.
For some reason this reads very YA to me. I couldn't get into the story beyond a very shallow surface level.