The Barefoot Woman

by Scholastique Mukasonga

Jordan Stump (Translator)

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FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE

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 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.
  • ISBN10 1939810043
  • ISBN13 9781939810045
  • Publish Date 18 December 2018
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 16 March 2021
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher Steerforth Press
  • Imprint Archipelago