Jean Hatzfeld: 4 books
Machete Season
The Killers in Rwanda Speak
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2006
In April-May 1994, 800,000 Rwandan Tutsis were massacred by their Hutu fellow citizens--about 10,000 a day, mostly being hacked to death by machete. In Machete Season, the veteran foreign correspondent Jean Hatzfeld reports on the results of his interviews with nine of the Hutu killers. They were...
Blood Papa
Rwanda's New Generation
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2018
The continuation of a groundbreaking study of the Rwandan genocide, and the story of the survivor generation
In Rwanda from April to June 1994, 800,000 Tutsis were slaughtered by their Hutu neighbors in the largest and swiftest genocide since World War II. In his previous books, Jean Hatzfeld...
Life Laid Bare
The Survivors in Rwanda Speak
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
"To make the effort to understand what happened in Rwanda is a painful task that we have no right to shirk–it is part of being a moral adult."
–Susan Sontag
In the late 1990s, French author and journalist Jean Hatzfeld made several journeys into the hilly, marshy region of the...
The Antelope's Strategy
Living in Rwanda After the Genocide
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2010
A powerful report on the aftereffects of the genocide in Rwanda—and on the near impossibility of reconciliation between survivors and killers
In two acclaimed previous works, the noted French journalist Jean Hatzfeld offered a profound, harrowing witness to the unimaginable pain and horror...