Philip Gourevitch

Rory Stewart

With an introduction by Rory StewartWinner of the Guardian First Book award, a first-hand account one of the defining outrages of modern history.All at once, as it seemed, something we could have only imagined was upon us - and we could still only imagine it. This is what fascinates me most in existence: the peculiar necessity of imagining what is, in fact, real.In 1994, the Rwandan government orchestrated a campaign of extermination, in which everyone in the Hutu majority was called upon to murder everyone in the Tutsi minority. Close to a million people were slaughtered in a hundred days, and the rest of the world did nothing to stop it. A year later, Philip Gourevitch went to Rwanda to investigate the most unambiguous genocide since Hitler's war against the Jews.Hailed by the Guardian as one of the hundred greatest nonfiction books of all time, We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families is a first-hand account one of the defining outrages of modern history, an unforgettable anatomy of Rwanda's decimation. As riveting as it is moving, it is a profound reckoning with humanity's betrayal and its perseverance.

We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families

William Finnegan

The award-winning debut by the acclaimed author of Cold New World. Named by The New York Times Book Review as a top ten nonfiction book of 1986, this seminal piece of cross-cultural journalism is an account of a white American's experience teaching black students in South Africaan account essential for its incisive coverage of the student anti-apartheid movement, as well as for the unpretentious charms of its prose.

A Year in the Land of Apartheid

Crossing the Line

Chceli by sme Vám oznámiť, že zajtra nás aj s rodinami pozabíjajú

histórias de Ruanda

Gostaríamos de informá-lo de que amanhã seremos mortos com nossas famílias

Errol Morris

Collects the stories of the American soldiers who took and appeared in the controversial digital photographs from Abu Ghraib, in a collaborative account of Iraq's scandal-marked occupation that reveals how it is being experienced by both guards and prisoners. 100,000 first printing.

Standard Operating Procedure

Yazarın Odası 2

Paris Review Interviews

The Paris Review. Interviste

The Ballad of Abu Ghraib

'The Paris Review' was founded in 1953 and has published early work by Philip Roth, V.S. Naipaul, Jeffrey Eugenides, A.S. Byatt, William T. Vollmann and many other leading writers. The quarterly also includes a well-established series of interviews with writers talking about their craft.

Paris Review

The Paris Review was founded in 1953 and has published early and important work by Philip Roth, V.S. Naipaul, Jeffrey Eugenides, A.S. Byatt, T.C. Boyle, William T. Vollmann and many other writers who have given us great literature of the past half century. The Paris Review is one of the seminal literary magazines, a groundbreaking publication that has consistently, over six decades, brought great writers together from all over the world. Its legendary interview series alone represents the single most important body of work that celebrates writing about writing. Publishing quarterly, each issue is a tribute to the possibilities of the written word and under Philip Gourevitch's canny editorial leadership it looks set to continue and expand on what it has achieved in its illustrious life to date.') The Paris Review is one of the seminal literary magazines, a groundbreaking publication that has consistently, over six decades, brought great writers together from all over the world. Its legendary interview series alone represents the single most important body of work that celebrates writing about writing. Publishing quarterly, each issue is a tribute to the possibilities of the written word and under Philip Gourevitch's canny editorial leadership it looks set to continue and expand on what it has achieved in its illustrious life to date

The Paris Review Issue 187

Gift of Christine Bombaro, Class of 1993.

The Indispensable Collection of Literary Wisdom

The Paris Review Interviews, III

Una lúcida reflexión sobre la guerra de Iraq a partir de las humillantes fotos tomadas en la cárcel de Abu Ghraib.

La balada de Abu Grhaib

A tale of crime and punishment from a prizewinning writer. A few years ago, Andy Rosenzweig, an inspector for the Manhattan District Attorney's office, was abruptly reminded of an old, unsolved double homicide. It bothered him that Frankie Koehler, the notoriously dangerous suspect, had eluded capture and was still at large. Rosenzweig had known the victims of the crime, for they were childhood friends from the South Bronx: Richie Glennon, a Runyonesque ex-prizefighter at home with both cops and criminals, and Pete McGinn, a spirited restaurateur and father of four. Rosenzweig resolved to find the killer and close the case. In a surprising, intensely dramatic narrative, Philip Gourevitch brings together the story of Rosenzweig's pursuit with a mesmerizing account of Koehler's criminal personality and years on the lam. A Cold Case carries us deep into the lives and minds, the passions and perplexities, of an extraordinary cop and an extraordinary criminal whose lives were entwined over three decades. Set in a New York City that has all but disappeared, and written with a keen ear for the vibrant idiom of the colorful men and women who peopled its streets, this is nonetheless a book for our times. Gourevitch masterfully transforms a criminal investigation into a searching literary reckoning with the forces that drive one man to murder and another to hunt murderers."

A Cold Case

Au printemps 1994, un massacre programmé décima, avec une rapidité stupéfiante, la République du Rwanda. Avec des moyens rudimentaires (à la machette, principalement), près d'un million de personnes furent exécutées en à peine cent jours, sur une population initiale de sept millions et demi d'habitants. Envoyé sur place comme reporter par le New Yorker, un an après le drame, Philip Gourevitch s'est fait l'historien dramaturge de ce génocide perpétré par les Hutu contre les Tutsi. C'est à travers des centaines de témoignages, comme autant de fables édifiantes, et donc par la voix des Rwandais eux-mêmes qu'il révèle peu à peu la mécanique fatale, mise en place à l'époque coloniale, dont résultent ces conflits ethniques. Pièce par pièce, il démonte cette " fabrique du génocide ".

chroniques rwandaises

Nous avons le plaisir de vous informer que, demain, nous serons tués avec nos familles

An unforgettable firsthand account of a people's response to genocide and what it tells us about humanity. This remarkable debut book chronicles what has happened in Rwanda and neighboring states since 1994, when the Rwandan government called on everyone in the Hutu majority to murder everyone in the Tutsi minority. Though the killing was low-tech--largely by machete--it was carried out at shocking speed: some 800,000 people were exterminated in a hundred days. A Tutsi pastor, in a letter to his church president, a Hutu, used the chilling phrase that gives Philip Gourevitch his title. With keen dramatic intensity, Gourevitch frames the genesis and horror of Rwanda's "genocidal logic" in the anguish of its aftermath: the mass displacements, the temptations of revenge and the quest for justice, the impossibly crowded prisons and refugee camps. Through intimate portraits of Rwandans in all walks of life, he focuses on the psychological and political challenges of survival and on how the new leaders of postcolonial Africa went to war in the Congo when resurgent genocidal forces threatened to overrun central Africa. Can a country composed largely of perpetrators and victims create a cohesive national society? This moving contribution to the literature of witness tells us much about the struggle everywhere to forge sane, habitable political orders, and about the stubbornness of the human spirit in a world of extremity. We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families is the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction.

Stories From Rwanda

We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families

An astonishing chronicle of twenty-five years of coexistence in the aftermath of annihilating division—the highly anticipated and timely follow-up to Philip Gourevitch’s award-winning bestseller We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda. Philip Gourevitch's unforgettable modern classic We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families opened our eyes to the 1994 genocide of Rwanda’s Tutsi minority: close to a million people murdered by their neighbors in one hundred days. Now Gourevitch bring us an astonishingly vivid and intimate exploration of how killers and survivors live together again in the same communities, grappling with seemingly impossible burdens of memory and forgetting, denial and confession, vengefulness and forgiveness. A fiercely beautiful literary reckoning, You Hide That You Hate Me and I Hide That I Know is the culmination of twenty-five years of reporting on the aftermath of the slaughter. The book take its title from a stark Rwandan adage that speaks to the uneasy trade-offs that reconciliation after near annihilation demands. Since the genocide, Rwanda has engaged in the most ambitious and sweeping process of accountability ever undertaken by any society. “Truth Heals” was the slogan. But truth also wounds. And truth is always contested. As Gourevitch returns repeatedly over the decades to the same families in one small hillside village, their accounts of killing and surviving, and of the life after, inform and enlarge one another, becoming ever more complex and more charged with significance for us all. These stories are at once as essential and as extreme as classical myths, illuminating the ways that we seek, individually and collectively, to negotiate our irreparable pasts in pursuit of a more habitable future. This deeply moving book continuously invites us—as only great writing can—to think, and to think again.

You Hide That You Hate Me and I Hide That I Know

A Cold Case is the story of how Andy Rosenzweig, retired Manhattan cop, reopened an investigation into a double murder that had happened more than thirty years earlier. It bothered him that Frankie Koehler, the notoriously dangerous suspect, had eluded capture. In a surprising, intensely dramatic narrative, Philip Gourevitch has transformed Rosenzweig's crusade into a searing literary masterpiece, reckoning with the forces that drive one man to murder and another to hunt murderers. Philip Gourevitch's first novel, We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda, won the Guardian First Book Award. 'A gripping, hard-boiled crime story of the highest order - and one which, in the end, transports the reader to some of the most troubling precincts of human enquiry' Irish Times 'Atmospheric, honest and intelligently written, avoiding the obvious in favour of the thought-provoking' Daily Telegraph 'His work feels trim and ageless, like a classic...It whips through arresting events at high speed...I didn't put it down until I hit the back cover' New Statesman

You Hide That You Hate Me and I Hide That I Know is the long-awaited follow-up to Philip Gourevitch's classic We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families Can a country recover from annihilating ethno-political polarization and violence? What future can a people defined by trauma imagine, much less realize? Philip Gourevitch's unforgettable book We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families--a modern classic--opened our eyes to the genocide of Tutsis in Rwanda as one of the defining experiences of humankind: in a hundred days as many as a million people were murdered by their fellow citizens, and the world refused to stop it. Now Gourevitch brings us another fiercely moving and essential literary reckoning. Drawn from twenty-five years of reporting on the aftermath of the slaughter, You Hide That You Hate Me and I Hide That I Know grapples with the burdens of memory and forgetting, of bloody division and enforced unity, of accountability and denial, of confession and forgiveness. Combining travelogue and investigative reportage, intimate personal testimony and national and global political debates, Gourevitch's dramatic stories of survivors and killers living again as neighbors, against all expectations, are charged with immense moral and political significance. As he returns over the years to the same cluster of peasant families on one small hill, the stories become at once more complicated and more meaningful--more complete and more resistant to journalistic simplification. In this powerful and necessary book, Gourevitch explores the challenges of forging a national future, and a habitable past, after near annihilation. By turns harrowing and exalting, You Hide That You Hate Me and I Hide That I Know illuminates the human condition as only great art can.

The third volume of the acclaimed Paris Review Interviews, described by Gary Shteyngart as a 'colossal literary event'

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