Running the rift
By: Naomi Benaron
Publisher: Oneworld
Published: 2013
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
ISBN-13: 9781851689040; 9781780740782
Subjects: Runners (Sports); Fiction; Civil war
Description: Jean Patrick Nkuba dreams of becoming the first Rwandan to run in the Olympics, but Jean is a Tutsi and his kind are not supposed to win. But when the president's sudden assassination plummets the country into chaos - Jean has to run, run from everyone and everything he knew, to survive. Evoking the raw beauty of Rwanda and the tragedy of its recent past, this is a novel of a people's trauma, of lives lost and of loves salvaged.
Notes: Winner Bellwether Prize for Fiction.