Chapel Hill, NC: Algonquin Books, (2012) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Author's second book, a novel which follows the story of Jean Patrick Nkuba "from the day he knows that running will be his life to the moment he must run to save his life. A naturally gifted athlete, he sprints over the thousand hills of Rwanda and dreams of becoming his countrys first Olympic medal winner in track. But Jean Patrick is a Tutsi in a world that has become increasingly restrictive and violent for his people." Winner of the Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction (awarded every other year). SIGNED on the title page. Author's note. 365 pp. ISBN: 978-1616200428.
Condition: Near fine in a fine dustjacket (penciled vocabulary words on rear free endpaper - erasable)
Edinburgh: Canongate Books Ltd, (2003) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel by this French Canadian journalist, a love story that takes place in the days leading up to the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, winner of the Prix des Libraires. Among those at the swimming pool of the Mille-Collines hotel, Kigali, in the early 1990s, is Bernard Valcourt, a documentary filmmaker from Quebec. The story of this developing catastrophe is revealed through the lives of a handful of Rwandans who befriend Valcourt. They confide in him because he listens, and because his interviews offer them a chance to try to change the way things are by telling the world. Threatened, frightened, sick, they don't want to talk and…
Edinburgh: Canongate Books Ltd, (2003) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel by this French Canadian journalist, a love story that takes place in the days leading up to the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, winner of the Prix des Libraires. Among those at the swimming pool of the Mille-Collines hotel, Kigali, in the early 1990s, is Bernard Valcourt, a documentary filmmaker from Quebec. The story of this developing catastrophe is revealed through the lives of a handful of Rwandans who befriend Valcourt. They confide in him because he listens, and because his interviews offer them a chance to try to change the way things are by telling the world. Threatened, frightened, sick, they don't want to talk and act like they're dying. Poor as they are, they want to have some moments of pleasure and celebrate life. Translated from the French by Patricia Claxton. 258 pp. ISBN: 978-1841954332.
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Hartley, a journalist who worked in Africa in the 1990s describes his childhood as the son of a British colonial officer, a legacy that stretched back over 150 years - four generations of one family. As a journalist he witnessed genocidal activities in Ethiopia, Somalia, Rwanda, and the Congo; the death of his friends, and heard stories of terrible attrocities. Burnt out by a decade of horrors he retreated to his family's home in Kenya where he found the Zanzibar chest his father had left him and inside the diaries of his father's best friend who had died in mysterious circmstances more than 50 years earlier- and…
New York: Atlantic Monthly Press, (2003) dj. SIGNED hardcover first edition - Hartley, a journalist who worked in Africa in the 1990s describes his childhood as the son of a British colonial officer, a legacy that stretched back over 150 years - four generations of one family. As a journalist he witnessed genocidal activities in Ethiopia, Somalia, Rwanda, and the Congo; the death of his friends, and heard stories of terrible attrocities. Burnt out by a decade of horrors he retreated to his family's home in Kenya where he found the Zanzibar chest his father had left him and inside the diaries of his father's best friend who had died in mysterious circmstances more than 50 years earlier- and so he set out on a journey to Southern Arabia to unlock Davey's story and that of his family. SIGNED on the title page. Dust jacket praise from Jim Harrison who called this a stunning piece of writing. Photographs. 415 pp. ISBN: 978-0871138712.
New York: Pegasus Books, (2014) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel by this journalist and television documentary producer - "An eye-opening account of the Rwandan civil war and an achingly tender portrait of a family at odds." 343 pp. ISBN: 978-1605986203.
RUNNING THE RIFT.
A SUNDAY AT THE POOL IN KIGALI.
THE ZANZIBAR CHEST: A Story of Life, Love, and Death in Foreign Lands.
THE AMBASSADORS.
