Description

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 familys story be forgottenThe Barefoot Woman is the story of the authors mother a fierce loving woman who for years protected her family from the violence encroaching upon them in pregenocide Rwanda Recording her memories of their life together in spare wrenching prose Mukasonga preserves her mothers voice in a haunting work of art