num_pages: 272
description: During the spring of 1994, in a tiny country called Rwanda, some 800,000 people were hacked to death, one by one, by their neighbors in a gruesome civil war. Several years later, journalist Jean Hatzfeld traveled to Rwanda to interview ten participants in the killings, eliciting extraordinary testimony from these men about the genocide they perpetrated. As Susan Sontag wrote in the preface, Machete Season is a document that "everyone should read . . . [because making] the effort to understand what happened in Rwanda . . . is part of being a moral adult."
language: English
title: Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speak
titlecomplete: Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speak
genres: History, Adult, Rwanda, Psychology, War, Africa, School, Memoir, Nonfiction, Politics
ratings_count: 2620
places: Rwanda
series: Rwanda
awards: awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Prix Femina
category: Essai, awardedAt: 1072944000000
name: Prix Joseph Kessel, awardedAt: 1325404800000
name: Ryszard Kapuściński Prize, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Scott Moncrieff Prize
category: Linda Coverdale
publisher: Picador