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Download Petit pays Mobi ✓ 224 pages Ú ➥ [Ebook] ➠ Petit pays By Gaël Faye ➯ – Dogsalonbristol.co.uk Avant Gabriel faisait les uatre cents coups avec ses copains dans leur coin de paradis Et puis l'harmonie familiale s'est dislouée en même temps ue son petit pays le Burundi ce bout d'Afriue central Avant GabrAvant Gabriel faisait les uatre cents coups avec ses copains dans leur coin de paradis Et puis l'harmonie familiale s'est dislouée en même temps ue son petit pays le Burundi ce This almost feels like two different stories and in a way it is just that The first part features a ten year old boy Gabby his sister And his mother who was from Rwanda and his father who is a French ex pat It is marked by the innocence of youth of being able to live a somewhat privileged life in a safe community His days spent playing with his friends their rivalry with a boy named Frances his only worry the disintegrating relationship of his parents In Burundi the first democratic election is soon to be held and people have high hopes for their countryThe second half shows the gradual loss of his innocence In Rwanda the genocide has begun and his mother travels to Rwanda seeking the family she has there She finds a horror beyond words and on her returns to her family she is much changed barely recognizable Gabby now eleven thinks Genocide is an oil slick those who don't drown in it are polluted for lifeA novel that shows the detriment of war the frutality of trying to stay neutral when it is brought to your door Countries torn apart families torn apart there are no winners I loved the character of Gabby insightful and wise for his age he tries to stay uninvolved burying himself in his books but is soon shocked out of his complacency The innocence and uietness of the first part of this book serves to highlight the changes that war brings the loss of innocence in the second half Jarringly so The author doesn't spare the readers the terror the horror but also how living with these conditions becomes the new normal It is not until it is brought to their door that this changes We are not left hanging about the outcome the last end of the book features some very insightful thoughts in a letter Gabby writes It also catches us up on the near future what happened to some of these characters and the effect in had on their lives The third book about Rwanda that I have read this month all of them both different and the same This is a well done story one definitely worth readingARC from Edelweiss
Petit paysAvant Gabriel faisait les uatre cents coups avec ses copains dans leur coin de paradis Et puis l'harmonie familiale s'est dislouée en même temps ue son petit pays le Burundi ce This almost feels like two different stories and in a way it is just that The first part features a ten year old boy Gabby his sister And his mother who was from Rwanda and his father who is a French ex pat It is marked by the innocence of youth of being able to live a somewhat privileged life in a safe community His days spent playing with his friends their rivalry with a boy named Frances his only worry the disintegrating relationship of his parents In Burundi the first democratic election is soon to be held and people have high hopes for their countryThe second half shows the gradual loss of his innocence In Rwanda the genocide has begun and his mother travels to Rwanda seeking the family she has there She finds a horror beyond words and on her returns to her family she is much changed barely recognizable Gabby now eleven thinks Genocide is an oil slick those who don't drown in it are polluted for lifeA novel that shows the detriment of war the frutality of trying to stay neutral when it is brought to your door Countries torn apart families torn apart there are no winners I loved the character of Gabby insightful and wise for his age he tries to stay uninvolved burying himself in his books but is soon shocked out of his complacency The innocence and uietness of the first part of this book serves to highlight the changes that war brings the loss of innocence in the second half Jarringly so The author doesn't spare the readers the terror the horror but also how living with these conditions becomes the new normal It is not until it is brought to their door that this changes We are not left hanging about the outcome the last end of the book features some very insightful thoughts in a letter Gabby writes It also catches us up on the near future what happened to some of these characters and the effect in had on their lives The third book about Rwanda that I have read this month all of them both different and the same This is a well done story one definitely worth readingARC from Edelweiss
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