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Philip Gourevitch, a staff writer at "The New Yorker", lives in New York City. His last book, "We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda" (FSG, 1998), won the National Book Critics Circle & Los Angeles Times Book Awards. (Bowker Author Biography)
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Werke von Philip Gourevitch

The Paris Review Interviews I (2006) — Herausgeber — 530 Exemplare
The Paris Review Interviews II (2014) — Herausgeber — 306 Exemplare
Standard Operating Procedure (2008) 213 Exemplare
A Cold Case (2001) 197 Exemplare
The Paris Review 182 2007 Fall (2007) — Herausgeber — 12 Exemplare
The Paris Review 175 2005 Fall-Winter (1992) — Herausgeber — 11 Exemplare
The Paris Review 186 2008 Fall (2008) 9 Exemplare
The Paris Review 185 2008 Summer (2008) — Herausgeber — 5 Exemplare
The Paris Review 190 2009 Fall (2009) — Herausgeber — 5 Exemplare

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The Best American Political Writing 2004 (2004) — Mitwirkender — 41 Exemplare

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The Rwandan genocide is one of those historic events which a lot of people have heard of, yet barely anyone knows of the developments leading up to it and the effect it had on the population of the region. This puts it on contrast to the Holocaust, however the stories the author tells from his encounters with survivors and perpetrators are no less heartbreaking. The conflict is explored through personal anecdotes with the author providing supplementary historical and political context. A large section at the end of the book deals with the aftermath of convictions at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda and a discussion of the West's disinterest in human rights violations during the genocide in particular and in Africa politics in general.… (mehr)
 
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