Scholastique Mukasonga's autobiographical stories rend a glorious Rwanda from the obliterating force of recent history, conjuring the noble cows of her home or the dew-swollen grass they graze on. In the title story, five-year-old Colomba tells of a merciless overlord, hunger or igifu, gnawing away at her belly. She searches for sap at the bud of a flower, scraps of sweet potato at the foot of her parent s bed, or a few grains of sorghum in the floor sweepings. Igifu becomes a dizzying hole in her stomach, a plunging abyss into which she falls.
| ISBN: | 9781939810786 |
| Publication date: | 15th September 2020 |
| Author: | Scholastique Mukasonga |
| Publisher: | Archipelago Books an imprint of Penguin Random House Group |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 110 pages |
| Genres: |
Shorter Reads |