Hastigheten

Rwanda, spring and early summer 1994, when as many as a million Tutsis were slaughtered within four months. In Nyamata, where most Tutsis will die at the hands of the Hutus next door, Marie-Louise, nineteen and Tutsi, shares her life with Félicien, a Hutu bicycle mechanic. We see her in the time leading up to the killings, while they rage, and once they are over, when she must face a court. In terse, nervous prose that moves between 'I', 'you' and 'she', as though under questioning, the novel looks at domination and helplessness, at how crowds behave and at what each individual must answer for.

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About the book

Form

Novel

Length

241 pages in the original

Genres

War, Historical (assigned by AI)

Set in

Rwanda, 1994

First published

2017 by Albert Bonniers Förlag

Author's age

56 when first published

ISBN

9789100159085 (original)