The Barefoot Woman

The Barefoot Woman

<b><b>FINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR TRANSLATED LITERATURE</b><br><br>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.</b><br><br>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.