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Lädt ... The Rebels' Hour (2006)von Lieve Joris
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. Dit boek gaatr over een man, dader en slachtoffer tegelijk, die heen en weer wordt getrokken tussen trouw aan zijn volk en trouw aan zijn land. Rare historically based novel on the first and second war in the Congo, providing what is probably an accurate reflection of the confused nature of the war, by focusing on one unwilling army commander who fought first with Kabila and then against him. It ends just like that, leaving an unsatisfactory feeling… However, Joris succeeds in painting a human portrait of a Banyamulenge warlord, and in that sense it is a rare account. The worries about his children and mother, the power play of his (extended) family, the dispassionate view on the duplicity of key political actors, as well as the mundane concerns that influence the key actor’s behaviour make for a nice break with historians who either play up mercantilist (geopolitical) motives or alternatively primordial (animalistic-ethnic) motives as being key for understanding the regional war unfolding in the Congo. Zeige 2 von 2 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
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When Assani, a young cowherd, left his remote village in the Congo to pursue studies in the city, he learned that he was ethnically Tutsi. Though uninterested in politics or military life, he was soon forced to take sides in the bloody conflict rocking his country in the wake of the genocide in neighbouring Rwanda. Strong, clever, and trusting no one, he became a fearsome rebel leader. With his expanding cadre of child soldiers he traversed the war-ravaged country, repeatedly dodging death at the hands of competing rebel factions in the bush, angry mobs in the capital city of Kinshasa, and even the rebel-turned-dictator Laurent Kabila himself. The Rebel's Hour thrusts us into Assani's world, forcing us to navigate the chaos of a lawless country alongside him, compelled by his instinct to survive even in a place where human life has been stripped of value. Though pathologically evasive, Assani - in Lieve Joris' brilliant portrait - stands out as a man who is both monstrous and sympathetic, perpetrator and victim. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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