The Past Ahead (ebook)

Argumento de The Past Ahead (ebook)

"The slow realization that everything is wrong." ?Foreign Policy

"Surviving the Rwandan tragedy, Gilbert Gatore at age 26 has published a strong first novel the poses universal questions with delicacy and courage." ?Livres et idees (France)

"...[a] vibrant work of fiction that explores what it takes to make a monster out of a
human being, and challenges the definition of survivor." ?ForeWord

"A real novel where memories comprise the trauma of a lost diary." ?Presse Regional (France)

Gilbert Gatore was born in Rwanda in 1981. During the civil war, he kept a diary that was later lost during his escape. He began writing fiction in an attempt to recreate the impressions recorded in his diary.

Marjolijn de Jager is a translator who specializes in Francophone African literature. She received the Distinguished Member Award from the African Literature Association in 2011.

"As a child, he witnessed the murderous folly of identification cards. Thanks to fiction, he closely approaches horror that is impossible to utter." ?Télérama

"At the beginning of the genocide, writer Gilbert Gatore opens an abyss. The Past Ahead is the history, powerful and marvelous, of an executioner and a victim." ?Ouest France

"The Past Ahead is a novel of blurred lines, the alternately healing and destructive power of memory, and irrepressible nature of truth. If we can only truly understand genocide through the art it inspires, then Gatore's The Past Ahead is as close a historical account of the atrocities of war and both the resilience and malleability of the human spirit as we can hope to receive." ?Big Muddy0