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Running the rift a novel

Jean Patrick Nkuba was born a Tutsi in a place where no one could be trusted because of their tribe. But he maintained his dream to become Rwanda's first Olympic medal contender in track, a feat he believes might deliver him and his people from this violence.

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  • "Jean Patrick Nkuba was born a Tutsi in a place where no one could be trusted because of their tribe. But he maintained his dream to become Rwanda's first Olympic medal contender in track, a feat he believes might deliver him and his people from this violence."@en
  • "Jean Patrick dreams of running in the Olympics, and with gruelling training he soon beats a world qualifying time. But his chances of success are threatened by the ethnic tensions erupting all around him. When Hutu violence against Tutsis finally crescendos and his homeland Rwanda is wracked by unforgivable atrocities, Jean Patrick, a Tutsi, has no choice but to run for his life abandoning fatherland, family, and the woman he loves. Finding them again will be the race of his life. Following a decade in Rwanda's history through the eyes of one boy, Running the Rift is a wrenching tale of a."@en
  • "Rwandan runner Jean Patrick Nkuba dreams of winning an Olympic gold medal and uniting his ethnically divided country, only to be driven from everyone he loves when the violence starts, after which he must find a way back to a better life."@en
  • "Rwandan runner Jean Patrick Nkuba dreams of winning an Olympic gold medal and uniting his ethnically divided country, only to be driven from everyone he loves when the violence starts, after which he must find a way back to a better life."
  • "Naomi Benaron's debut novel follows Rwandan Jean Patrick Nkuba, a Tutsi, from his earliest dreams of becoming his country's first Olympic medal contender in track, to the moment when he finds himself facing a mob of killers, with no choice but to vault over a wall and run for his life. In the years preceding the genocide, Jean Patrick's world becomes ever more violent and restrictive, spinning toward the inevitable moment when the killing begins and he must leave behind the woman and country he loves. Benaron interweaves Rwanda's politics, the beauty of its landscape, and the yearning and dedication of Jean Patrick himself into a tremendously moving story of the country and the character's unraveling and tentative new beginning."@en
  • "Jean Patrick Nkuba dreams of becoming the first Rwandan to run in the Olympics, but Jean is a Tutsi and his kind are not supposed to win. But when the president's sudden assassination plummets the country into chaos - Jean has to run, run from everyone and everything he knew, to survive. Evoking the raw beauty of Rwanda and the tragedy of its recent past, this is a novel of a people's trauma, of lives lost and of loves salvaged."
  • "In de jaren negentig van de 20e eeuw droomt een Tutsi-jongen met een talent voor hardlopen over deelname aan de Olympische Spelen als de Hutu's een steeds dreigender houding aannemen."
  • "Running the Rift follows the progress 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 country's 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. As tensions mount between the Hutu and Tutsi, he holds fast to his dream that running might deliver him, and his people, from the brutality around them. Winner of the Bellwether Prize for Socially Engaged Fiction, Naomi Benaron has written a stunning and gorgeous novel that--through the eyes of one unforgettable boy--explores a country's unraveling, its tentative new beginning and the love that binds its people together."@en

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  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Large type books"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "History"
  • "Ausgabe"

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  • "跑過裂谷"
  • "Running the rift a novel"@en
  • "Courir sur la faille"
  • "跑过裂谷"
  • "Running the rift : a novel"
  • "Running the rift"
  • "Running the rift"@en
  • "Running the rift : Naomi Benaron"
  • "Running the Rift"
  • "Running the Rift"@en
  • "Pao guo lie gu"

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