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Winner of the 2025 Scott Moncrieff Prize
The author was fifteen at the height of the genocide inflicted on the Tutsi people in Rwanda. She and her mother had spent weeks moving from one insecure shelter to another amid scenes of petrifying violence. Hundreds of thousands of Tutsi were killed in a period of only three months.
The lives of Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse and her mother were a sleepless nightmare – until, eventually, a place was found for them on a convoy to safety.
More than a decade later, after rebuilding her life in France, Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse was ready to begin the process of reconstructing her incomplete memories of the escape and establishing community with other survivors. She is now a poet and a prize-winning novelist, but until now she never written about her own history..
Beginning by making contact with the BBC team which filmed the convoy, then by tracking down aid workers, journalists and fellow escapees and scouring archives in a search for photographs of her crossing of the border, the author pieces together records and personal accounts to try to comprehend the chaos that overtook Rwanda at the time of the genocide.
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À propos des auteurs
Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse was born in Butare in Rwanda in 1979. She was fifteen when she survived the genocide against the Tutsi. She settled in France and has become a writer. Her first novel All Your Children, Scattered and Consolée, her second, were both widely praised by critics and booksellers and won French literary prizes.
Ruth Diver is a former academic who translates from French, German and Russian. Her translations include A Hymn to Life by Gisèle Pelicot (co-translated with Natasha Lehrer), The Little Girl on the Ice Floe by Adélaïde Bon, A History of the Big House by Charif Majdalani and The Revolt by Clara Dupont-Monod. She won the 2025 Scott Moncrieff prize for her translation of The Convoy. She lives in Aotearoa New Zealand.
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Hardback. Etat : New. Prize-winning novelist and short-story writer Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse's harrowing, urgent memoir documents and reconstructs her escape, at the age of fifteen, from the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. **Finalist for the Prix Du Livre Inter 2024** **Winner of the Grand Prix de l'Héroïne Madame Figaro (non-fiction category)** **Winner of the Prix Montluc Résistance et Liberté (special jury prize)** **Winner of the Prix France Télévisions 2024 (non-fiction category)** **Shortlisted for the Prix Inrockuptibles** 'The Convoy is a tour de force, giving equal weight to individual and collective experience with unparalleled lucidity, dignity, and lightness of touch. But I believe that it does more, and better, than that. The Convoy represents literature at its finest from the first sentence to the last' Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, winner of the Prix Goncourt 2021 'A non-fiction book which must be recognised as a major work of literature, for here, along with the extreme violence and the story of survival in a time of horrors, is a hitherto unrecorded truth' Nathalie Crom, Télérama 'A gripping story, at once a personal account and a reflection on the indelible traces of genocide' Sophie Rosemont, Vogue France 'Bare-bones, deeply moving and crucial' Olivier Mony, Livres Hebdo 'A powerful indictment of cowardice in the face of cruelty' Nelly Kaprièlian-Self, Times Literary Supplement ------ The author was fifteen at the height of the genocide inflicted on the Tutsi people in Rwanda. She and her mother had spent weeks moving from one insecure shelter to another, surrounded by scenes of petrifying violence. Hundreds of thousands of Tutsi were killed in a period of only three months. The lives of Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse and her mother were a sleepless nightmare - until, through the bewildering courage of nuns and of aid workers, eventually a place was found for them on a convoy to safety. But even then, when their journey - hidden in the bottom of a truck - came at last to an end, safety was only assured by the presence of journalists and cameramen watching their arrival at the frontier. More than a decade later, after rebuilding her life in France, Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse is ready to begin the process of reconstructing her incomplete memories of the escape and establishing community with other survivors. She has become a poet and a prize-winning novelist, but never until now has she written about her own history. Beginning by making contact with the B.B.C. team which filmed the convoy, then by tracking down aid workers, journalists and fellow escapees and scouring archives in a search for photographs of her own crossing of the border, the author pieces together records and personal accounts to try to comprehend the chaos that overtook Rwanda at the time of the genocide. The Convoy reflects on the act of bearing witness and the value hidden in fragments of the past. Thirty years on from the genocide, Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse was able to. N° de réf. du vendeur LU-9781916788701
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Hardback. Etat : New. Prize-winning novelist and short-story writer Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse's harrowing, urgent memoir documents and reconstructs her escape, at the age of fifteen, from the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. **Finalist for the Prix Du Livre Inter 2024** **Winner of the Grand Prix de l'Héroïne Madame Figaro (non-fiction category)** **Winner of the Prix Montluc Résistance et Liberté (special jury prize)** **Winner of the Prix France Télévisions 2024 (non-fiction category)** **Shortlisted for the Prix Inrockuptibles** 'The Convoy is a tour de force, giving equal weight to individual and collective experience with unparalleled lucidity, dignity, and lightness of touch. But I believe that it does more, and better, than that. The Convoy represents literature at its finest from the first sentence to the last' Mohamed Mbougar Sarr, winner of the Prix Goncourt 2021 'A non-fiction book which must be recognised as a major work of literature, for here, along with the extreme violence and the story of survival in a time of horrors, is a hitherto unrecorded truth' Nathalie Crom, Télérama 'A gripping story, at once a personal account and a reflection on the indelible traces of genocide' Sophie Rosemont, Vogue France 'Bare-bones, deeply moving and crucial' Olivier Mony, Livres Hebdo 'A powerful indictment of cowardice in the face of cruelty' Nelly Kaprièlian-Self, Times Literary Supplement ------ The author was fifteen at the height of the genocide inflicted on the Tutsi people in Rwanda. She and her mother had spent weeks moving from one insecure shelter to another, surrounded by scenes of petrifying violence. Hundreds of thousands of Tutsi were killed in a period of only three months. The lives of Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse and her mother were a sleepless nightmare - until, through the bewildering courage of nuns and of aid workers, eventually a place was found for them on a convoy to safety. But even then, when their journey - hidden in the bottom of a truck - came at last to an end, safety was only assured by the presence of journalists and cameramen watching their arrival at the frontier. More than a decade later, after rebuilding her life in France, Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse is ready to begin the process of reconstructing her incomplete memories of the escape and establishing community with other survivors. She has become a poet and a prize-winning novelist, but never until now has she written about her own history. Beginning by making contact with the B.B.C. team which filmed the convoy, then by tracking down aid workers, journalists and fellow escapees and scouring archives in a search for photographs of her own crossing of the border, the author pieces together records and personal accounts to try to comprehend the chaos that overtook Rwanda at the time of the genocide. The Convoy reflects on the act of bearing witness and the value hidden in fragments of the past. Thirty years on from the genocide, Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse was able to. N° de réf. du vendeur LU-9781916788701
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Hardcover. Etat : new. Hardcover. Prize-winning novelist and short-story writer Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse's harrowing, urgent memoir documents and reconstructs her escape, at the age of fifteen, from the 1994 genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda.The author was fifteen at the height of the genocide against the Tutsi in Rwanda. She and her mother had spent weeks moving from one insecure shelter to another, constantly threatened, always hungry, surrounded by scenes of petrifying violence. Hundreds of thousands of Tutsi were killed in a period of only three months. The violence that the author had no choice but to observe was of an appalling savagery. The victims were killed with machetes and knives and beaten to death with sticks. Many were raped. Dead bodies were everywhere, sometimes in heaps.The lives of Mairesse and her mother were a sleepless nightmare with no prospect of salvation until by a miracle, through the bewildering courage of nuns, of aid workers, all of whom every day risked their lives to care for Tutsi fugitives, eventually a place was found for them on a convoy to safety. But the threat and the terror were not yet over. When the journey in the bottom of a truck came at last to an end, their safety was only assured by the presence of journalists and cameramen watching their arrival at the frontier.More than a decade later, after rebuilding her life in France, Mairesse is ready to begin the process of reconstructing her incomplete memories of the escape and building community with other survivors. She has become a prize-winning novelist, but never until now has she written on her own history. Beginning with the BBC team which filmed the convoy, then by tracking down aid workers, journalists and fellow escapees and scouring archives in a search for photographs of her own crossing of the border, Mairesse pieces together records and personal accounts to elucidate the chaos that overtook Rwanda at the time of the genocide.'A moving and powerful account of the violence of the genocide in Rwanda and of the aftermath for the survivors. Its descriptions of the terror of the days in hiding are unforgettable.' Abdulrazak Gurnah, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature'A superb act of defiance and an unexpected gift to the world. It reclaims the right to individualise the genocide against the Tutsi and offers a powerful alternative to resilience stories.' Olivette Otele, author of African Europeans: An Untold History'The Convoy is a genocide survivor's determined quest to find out more details about her past. But in Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse's gifted hands, this moving and profound book expands to become a meditation on what it means to remember and what we can still salvage from all those things that remain unknown. The Convoy is a deeply intimate story and a generous, capacious examination of survival and healing. It is an affirmation of love's ability to forge new paths across terrain that hatred and violence once tried to destroy. This is a necessary book for our times.' Maaza Mengiste, author of The Shadow King, finalist for the Booker Prize'The Convoy is a literary detective novel which, as Seamus Heaney would say, allows hope and history to rhyme. Told in clear, concise prose, this is a brave story that comes at a perfect time, and allows us to know that nothing ever truly ends.' Colum McCann Prize-winning novelist and short-story writer Beata Umubyeyi Mairesse's harrowing, urgent memoir documents and reconstructs her escape, at the age of fifteen, from the Rwandan massacres of 1994, in which 800,000 Tutsi were slaughtered. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. N° de réf. du vendeur 9781916788701
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