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

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.