Philip Gourevitch - We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda

Pros: A well-written, stirring, and very informative book...
Cons: Opens a lot of questions that it leaves unanswered...

The Background
In 1994, by most native accounts, up to 800,000 Rwandan citizens were massacred during a mass genocide of Tutsis by an opposing and recently-formed Hutu majority. Longtime friends and neighbors turned upon each other in a...

Pros: an important lesson
Cons: a little wordy in parts

In the course of a few months in 1994, nearly a million Rwandans were killed, and the U.S., Europe, and international community basically ignored it.

This is a powerful book about genocide--not a light topic, obviously, but an important one....

Pros: excellent writing, journalism and feel for story
Cons: none

This is the story of the genocide in Rwanda in 1994, before and hence. It explains the histories of the Hutus and Tutsis and the intricacies of relationship between them. But primarily it tells a story in the voices of the Rwandans and of the author....

Pros: Original writing style and provides new information about the genocide I'd never heard before.
Cons: Strong bias against the international aid given after. It is a secondary source.

I read this book for a World History Class and I found that it was very well written. It was interesting to read because it offered a different style of writing about the genocide. The author is on Rwandan and was not present during the genocide but uses his personal research along with many interviews with genocide survivors to report on the genocide, its history and its lingering impacts.