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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 967
EAN: 9780312425036
ISBN: 0312425031
Label: Picador
Manufacturer: Picador
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 272
Publication Date: April 18, 2006
Publisher: Picador
Release Date: April 18, 2006
Sales Rank: 47679
Studio: Picador
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During the spring of 1994, in a tiny country called Rwanda, some 800,000 people were hacked to death, one by one, by their neighbors in a gruesome civil war. Several years later, journalist Jean Hatzfeld traveled to Rwanda to interview ten participants in the killings, eliciting extraordinary testimony from these men about the genocide they perpetrated. As Susan Sontag wrote in the preface, Machete Season is a document that 'everyone should read . . . [because making] the effort to understand what happened in Rwanda . . . is part of being a moral adult.'
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Rating: - Machete Season
Hatzfeld's book is a welcome addition to the published works on the subject of the Rwandan genocide. It would have benefitted by Hatzfeld making use of his access to the prisoners by actually asking probing questions, but such was not his method. A brief histoty of European influence on Rwanda and it's native peoples would also have been welcome, although from my reading neither this information nor any other lends a believable explanation for the Rwandan genocidal chaos of 1994.
Rating:  - Brilliant
I love the way the book was presented (a stylistic choice suitable to the topic and not at all structurally flawed as another reviewer suggests).
If you are expecting to come away with some definitive answers about the genocide... think again, as it is not the purpose of this book.The beauty of this book is that is illuminating, but somewhat open.Hatzfeld does not spoon feed the reader and he keeps the book's focus on the voices of the men he interviewed.There is a rawness about ... Read More
Rating: - The MurderersSpeak
The author interviewed in prison a group of friends,a seemingly ordinary crosssection of Rawandan Hutu farmers, who willingly and enthusiastically participated in the brutal extermination of their Tutsi neighbors. The book draws parallels with previous genocides such as perpetuated by the Nazi's and others thruout history. The killers seemed to look upon the massacres as pretty much of a job. With an added benefit often of rape and plunder. An incredibly disturbing, but true story. An interesting sidenote ... Read More
Rating: - 500,000 not 50,000
There's a blazing typo in the editorial Booklist review. Approximately 500,000 to over 1,000,000 human beings, not the stated 50,000, were murdered in the Rwandan massacre.
Rating: - Not the book to begun with, but a book for deeper digging
I would recommend that anyone just starting to study the genocide in Rwanda start with Tomorrow We wish to inform you...
If you want to continue to get insights into this horrible time, Jean Hatzfield's two books should be read.His reflections mirrored my own questions, and even the guarded stories of the killers show their hearts. One killer says, "Someone had failed to finish the job, so I followed the target and finished it." as a reference to killing a neighbor.The killers' complete belief that ... Read More
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