When the Hills Ask for Your Blood

Tremendous. A moving and haunting tribute to the human spirit' WILLIAM BOYDInto the heart of a genocide that left a million people dead6 April 1994: In the skies above Rwanda the president's plane is shot down in flames. Near Kigali, Jean-Pierre holds his family close, fearing for their lives as the violence escalates. In the chapel of a hillside village, missionary priest Vjeko Curic prepares to save thousands of livesThe mass slaughter that follows - friends against friends, neighbours against neighbours - is one of the bloodiest chapters in historyTwenty years on, BBC Newsnight producer David Belton, one of the first journalists into Rwanda, tells of the horrors he experienced at first-hand. Now following the threads of Jean-Pierre and Vjeko Curic's stories, he revisits a country still marked with blood, in search of those who survived and the legacy of those who did not. This is David Belton's quest for the limits of bravery and forgiveness.

Product details

• Authors: David Belton, Belton David
• Publisher: BLACK SWAN
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 12.03.2015
• EAN: 9780552775335
• ISBN: 978-0-552-77533-5
• No. of pages: 352
• Dimensions: 127 mm x 198 mm x 22 mm
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > 20th century (up to 1945); Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Biographies, autobiographies; Ruanda : Berichte, Erinnerungen, History: specific events & topics, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical, Biography: historical, political & military, HISTORY / Africa / General, Social & cultural history, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, Rwanda, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Social and cultural history, History: specific events and topics, Biography: historical, political and military, Genocide & ethnic cleansing, Genocide and ethnic cleansing, william boyd; africa; rwanda; genocide; human rights