The Past Ahead: A Novel (Global African Voices)
"Surviving the Rwandan tragedy, Gilbert Gatore at age 26 has published a strong first novel the poses universal questions with delicacy and courage." —Livres et idees (France)"A real novel where memories comprise the trauma of a lost diary." —Presse Regional (France)"The slow realization that everything is wrong." —Foreign Policy"At the beginning of the genocide, writer Gilbert Gatore opens an abyss. The Past Ahead is the history, powerful and marvelous, of an executioner and a victim." —Ouest France"As a child, he witnessed the murderous folly of identification cards. Thanks to fiction, he closely approaches horror that is impossible to utter." —Télérama"...[a] vibrant work of fiction that explores what it takes to make a monster out of ahuman being, and challenges the definition of survivor." —ForeWord"The Past Ahead is a novel of blurred lines, the alternately healing and destructive power of memory, and irrepressible nature of truth. If we can only truly understand genocide through the art it inspires, then Gatore's The Past Ahead is as close a historical account of the atrocities of war and both the resilience and malleability of the human spirit as we can hope to receive." —Big Muddy