- Prix Goncourt 2016 · Shortlist
Small Country
Petit Pays
Gaël Faye (born 1982)
Translated by Sarah Ardizzone
English editions
In EnglishSmall Country
Hogarth · United States · 5 March 2019 · Paperback · 192 pages
Small Country
Hogarth · United States · June 2018 · Hardcover · 192 pages
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Gabriel, ten, lives in an expatriate enclave of Burundi in 1992 with his French businessman father, Rwandan mother and sister Ana, running wild with a gang of friends. Then his parents split, civil war nears and genocide erupts next door. Violence creeps into his street, and the boy learns he is not just a child but mixed-race, Tutsi and French.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 215 pages in the original
- Genres
- Coming of age, War (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Burundi, Rwanda, 1992–1994
- First published
- 2016 by Grasset
- Author's age
- 34 when first published
- ISBN
9782246857334 (original)
9781524759872 (Hogarth, United States)
9781524759889 (Hogarth, United States)
- More
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