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The Girl Who Smiled Beads (Paperback)
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The Girl Who Smiled Beads (Paperback)
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Price R424
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A riveting tale of dislocation, survival, and the power of stories
to break or save us Clemantine Wamariya was six years old when her
mother and father began to speak in whispers, when neighbours began
to disappear, and when she heard the loud, ugly sounds her brother
said were thunder. In 1994, she and her fifteen-year-old sister,
Clare, fled the Rwandan massacre and spent the next six years
wandering through seven African countries, searching for
safety-perpetually hungry, imprisoned and abused, enduring and
escaping refugee camps, finding unexpected kindness, witnessing
inhuman cruelty. They did not know whether their parents were dead
or alive. When Clemantine was twelve, she and her sister were
granted refugee status in the United States, where she embarked on
another journey, ultimately graduating from Yale. Yet the years of
being treated as less than human, of going hungry and seeing death,
could not be erased. She felt at the same time six years old and
one hundred years old. In The Girl Who Smiled Beads, Clemantine
provokes us to look beyond the label of `victim' and recognize the
power of the imagination to transcend even the most profound
injuries and aftershocks. Devastating yet beautiful, and bracingly
original, it is a powerful testament to her commitment to
constructing a life on her own terms.
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