· At the center of Scholastique Mukasonga’s latest work of fiction and debut short story collection, Igifu, lies the genocide in Rwanda. During . Scholastique Mukasonga Translated from the French by Jordan Stump Igifu (Archipelago Books, ) Over the last decade and a half, Scholastique Mukasonga has resurrected an entire lost www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 6 mins. · “Igifu,” the first story in the collection, sets the standards early on for Mukasonga’s masterful storytelling, in addition to instructing the reader in how to interact with the other stories in the collection. Igifu is the name of a monster, the personification of hunger, which begins to taunt the child narrator of the eponymous story.
Igifu. By Scholastique Mukasonga. New Price: $ Used Price: $ Mentioned in: Year in Reading. A Year in Reading: Adam Dalva. Adam Dalva - There was a before, I think, and back then I read well. I read on subways and trains. I. Igifu by Scholastique Mukasonga, Trans. by Jordan Stump has an overall rating of Rave based on 9 book reviews. Join us for a virtual book club on Scholastique Mukasonga's Igifu, translated from the French by Jordan Stump and published by Archipelago Books. The stories in Igifu share phantom memories of Rwanda and radiate with the fierce ache of a survivor; author Zadie Smith says that, in Igifu, National Book Award finalist Mukasonga "rescues a million souls from the collective noun genocide.".
The stories in Igifu summon phantom memories of Rwanda and radiate with the fierce ache of a survivor. From the National Book Award finalist who Zadie Smith says, "rescues a million souls from the collective noun genocide."Scholastique Mukasonga's autobiographical stories. Igifu is the omnipresent state of hunger, as experienced by Scholastique Mukasonga, starting from her life at the age of five with her family in exile from native Rwanda. Beautifully written and devastating in content, thanks to a lovely translation by Jordan Stump who has worked on her previous semi-autobiographical books. Scholastique Mukasonga is the author of Our Lady of the Nile, Cockroaches, The Barefoot Woman, and Igifu. Our Lady Of The Nile won the Ahamadou Kourouma prize and the Renaudot prize in In , The Barefoot Woman was a finalist for the National Book Award for Translated Literature. She lives in France.
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