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Running the rift : a novel / Naomi Benaron.

Summary:

Rwandan runner Jean Patrick Nkuba dreams of winning an Olympic gold medal and uniting his ethnically divided country, only to be driven from everyone he loves when the violence starts, after which he must find a way back to a better life.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781616200428
  • ISBN: 1616200421
  • Physical Description: 365 pages ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2012.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 364-365)..
Awards Note:
Winner, Bellwether Prize for Fiction, 2010
Subject: Runners (Sports) > Fiction.
Tutsi (African people) > Fiction.
Tutsi (African people)
Runners (Sports)
Rwanda > Politics and government > 1994- > Fiction.
Rwanda > Fiction.
Genre: Fiction.

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  • 1 of 1 copy available at McDowell County Public Library.

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