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Scholastique Mukasonga – A Book of My Own

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'For those who, despite everything, have decided to live, there will always be a home.' – Scholastique Mukasonga. A Book of My Own is a work on the experience of exile and migration, memory and selfhood, from legendary French-Rwandan storyteller Scholastique Mukasonga. For most of her life, Mukasonga was not a writer but a UNESCO social worker. She began writing only in 1994 out of what she called an 'urgency to remember' – her town, her mother, and her thirty-seven family members, who were murdered during the genocide of that year. She recorded everything in a little blue notebook which, in 2

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