Deogratias, a tale of Rwanda / J.P. Stassen ; [introduction by Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse].

By:

Stassen, Jean-Philippe [author.]

Contributor(s):

Umubyeyi Mairesse, Beata, 1979- [author of introduction.]

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: French Publication details: New York : First Second, 2018. Edition: First American revised editionDescription: 78 pages; chiefly color illustrations; 22 cmISBN:

1250189640
9781250189646

Uniform titles:

Déogratias. English

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DDC classification:

LOC classification:

PN6790.B43S732018

Summary: "The 2000 winner of the Goscinny Prize for outstanding graphic novel script, this is the harrowing tale of the Tutsi genocide in Rwanda, as seen through the eyes of a boy named Deogratias. He is an ordinary teenager, in love with a girl named Bénigne, but Deogratias is a Hutu and Bénigne is a Tutsi who dies in the genocide, and Deogratias himself plays a part in her death. As the story circles around but never depicts the terror and brutality of an entire country descending into violence, we watch Deogratias in his pursuit of Bénigne, and we see his grief and descent into madness following her death, as he comes to believe he is a dog."--us.macmillan.com.

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Graphics Young Adult	Waimate Young Adult Fiction	Children &Young Adults Section	GRAPHICS_YA (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		a00746969

Originally published in Belgium in 2000 under the title Déogratias by Dupuis, Marcinelle.

"The 2000 winner of the Goscinny Prize for outstanding graphic novel script, this is the harrowing tale of the Tutsi genocide in Rwanda, as seen through the eyes of a boy named Deogratias. He is an ordinary teenager, in love with a girl named Bénigne, but Deogratias is a Hutu and Bénigne is a Tutsi who dies in the genocide, and Deogratias himself plays a part in her death. As the story circles around but never depicts the terror and brutality of an entire country descending into violence, we watch Deogratias in his pursuit of Bénigne, and we see his grief and descent into madness following her death, as he comes to believe he is a dog."--us.macmillan.com.

Translated from the French.

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