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One Hundred Days
Hundert Tage
Lukas Bärfuss (born 1971)
Translated by Tess Lewis
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One Hundred Days
Granta Books · United Kingdom · 2012 · 180 pages
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Rwanda, April 1994: in Kigali the mob is raging. David, who works for Swiss development aid, has let the plane evacuating the last foreigners leave without him. He hides in his house for a hundred days, brought food by his gardener, along with news of Agathe, the daughter of a government official and the reason he stayed. The four years of their love, and of his time as an aid worker in Kigali, pass through his mind: millions were pumped into a totalitarian regime that, about to lose power to a rebel army, organised a genocide. A story of a moral error, in which Switzerland is more deeply entangled than it likes to believe.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Length
- 197 pages in the original
- Genres
- War, Love, Politics (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- Rwanda, 1990–1994
- First published
- 2008 by Wallstein Verlag
- Author's age
- 37 when first published
- ISBN
9783835302716 (original)
9781847084804 (Granta Books, United Kingdom)
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