The Barefoot Woman
Read by
Waceke Wambaa
Release:
06/28/2022
Finalist for the National Book Award for Translated Fiction
A Literary Hub Pick of Best Translated Books of the Decade
A Bookish Pick of Must-Reads
A moving, unforgettable tribute to a Tutsi woman who did everything to protect her children from the Rwandan genocide, by the daughter who refuses to let her family’s story be forgotten
The Barefoot Woman is the story of the author’s mother, a fierce, loving woman who for years protected her family from the violence encroaching upon them in pre-genocide Rwanda. Recording her memories of their life together in spare, wrenching prose, Mukasonga preserves her mother’s voice in a haunting work of art.
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