The Barefoot Woman

De: Scholastique Mukasonga

Narrado por: Waceke Wambaa

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.

©2008 Editions Gallimard, Paris. English Translation © 2018 by Jordan Stump (P)2022 Blackstone Publishing

Great read from great author

The author skillfully takes you to the heart of her native Bugesera in the eastern part of Rwanda where she describes the stories that makes you lough and cry at the same time.

Almost a Perfect Book

While the Rwandan Genocide and previous pogroms hover in the background of this book, it shows the loving and traditional relationships that held Tutsi communities together under great duress through the life of the author’s mother and the women around her. We get to know the author’s family as complete human beings.