The continuation of a groundbreaking study of the Rwandan genocide, and the story of the survivor generationIn Rwanda from April to June 1994, 800,000 Tutsis were slaughtered by their Hutu neighbors in the largest and swiftest genocide since World War II. In his previous books, Jean Hatzfeld has documented the lives of the killers and victims, but after twenty years he has found that the enormity of understanding doesn't stop with one generation. In Blood Papa

A powerful report on the aftereffects of the genocide in Rwanda—and on the near impossibility of reconciliation between survivors and killersIn two acclaimed previous works, the noted French journalist Jean Hatzfeld offered a profound, harrowing witness to the unimaginable pain and horror in the mass killings of one group of people by another. Combining his own analysis of the events with interviews from both the Hutu killers who carried out acts of unimaginable dep...

Budapest, 1944–1945 tele. Sheindel és Izeta a romos állatkertben talál menedéket, ahol éhes állatok kóborolnak. A zsidó és a cigány kislány találékony, mindig készenlétben áll, és küldetésének érzi, hogy megszervezze a zsiráfok, zebrák és más állatok szöktetését a nácik birtokolta és a Vörös Hadsereg szorongatta városból. Sheindel évtizedekkel a háború után visszatér Budapestre, és hosszú kutatásba kezd Izeta után. 1995-ben, a szintén ostrom sújtotta Szarajevóban még mindig őt keresi. Jean...

Jean Hatzfeld, fransk journalist, som skrivit flera prisbelönta böcker om folkmordet i Rwanda är nu tillbaka i Rwanda tjugo år senare och skriver om dem som var barn eller ännu inte födda vid den här tiden. Barn till mördare eller överlevare som nu lever längs samma gator. Om tystnaden. Vad pratar man om hemma eller vad pratar man inte om hemma? Vad säger man i skolan? De flesta intervjuer är gjorda med ungdomarna men också med deras föräldrar.

A chilling and illuminating account of the Rwandan genocide, as told by the killers themselves.In Machete Season, veteran foreign correspondent Jean Hatzfeld reports on his interviews with nine Hutu killers who participated in the 1994 Rwandan genocide, during which 800,000 Tutsis were massacred by their Hutu fellow citizens—about 10,000 a day, mostly hacked to death by machete. The killers, all friends from a single region, helped slaughter 50,000 out of ...