num_pages: 207
description: A 2005 Civil Rights Freedom Award winner describes how he utilized his position as a hotel manager in violence-stricken Rwanda to offer shelter to more than twelve thousand members of the Tutsi clan and Hutu moderates, an act that inspired an Academy Award-nominated film. 60,000 first printing.
language: English
title: An Ordinary Man
titlecomplete: An Ordinary Man
characters: Paul Rusesabagina
genres: Biography, Rwanda, History, Autobiography, Historical, Africa, War, Nonfiction, Biography Memoir, Memoir
ratings_count: 6497
places: Rwanda
publisher: Viking Adult