Running the rift

By Naomi Benaron

Subjects: Politics and government, Fiction, general, Tutsi (African people), Runners (Sports), Fiction, Africa, fiction

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.