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Zusatztext Rusesabagina . . . weaves his country?s history with his personal history into a rich narrative that attempts to explain the unexplainable. . . . The book?s emotional power comes from his understatement and humility. ( The Boston Globe ) An extraordinary cautionary tale. ( The Atlanta Journal-Constitution ) Rusesabagina?s story of survival amid manic slaughter is as awful as it is gripping. ( St. Louis Post-Dispatch ) Read this book. It will humble and inspire you. ( Sunday Telegraph ! London) Extraordinary?horrific and tragic! but also inspiring! because Rusesabagina refuses to give up his belief in the basic decency of humanity. ( The Times ! London) Informationen zum Autor Paul Rusesabagina has received many awards and honors, including the National Civil Rights Museum Freedom Award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Rescuer of Humanity Award and the The Lantos Human Rights Prize. He formed the Hotel Rwanda Rusesabagina Foundation to provide voice to victims of genocide and support peace efforts in Rwanda and throughout the world. Tom Zoellner is the author of eight nonfiction books, including Island on Fire: The Revolt that Ended Slavery in the British Empire , and works as a professor at Chapman University and Dartmouth College. Klappentext A remarkable account of the amazing life story of the man who inspired the film Hotel Rwanda Readers who were moved and horrified by Hotel Rwanda will respond even more intensely to Paul Rusesabagina's unforgettable autobiography. As Rwanda was thrown into chaos during the 1994 genocide, Rusesabagina, a hotel manager, turned the luxurious Hotel Milles Collines into a refuge for more than 1,200 Tutsi and moderate Hutu refugees, while fending off their would-be killers with a combination of diplomacy and deception. In An Ordinary Man, he tells the story of his childhood, retraces his accidental path to heroism, revisits the 100 days in which he was the only thing standing between his "guests" and a hideous death, and recounts his subsequent life as a refugee and activist. AN ORDINARY MAN AN ORDINARY MAN AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY PAUL RUSESABAGINA with Tom Zoellner VIKING “Many fledging moralists in those days were going about our town proclaiming that there was nothing to be done about it and we should bow to the inevitable. And Tarrou, Rieux, and their friends might give one answer or another, but its conclusion was always the same, their certitude that a fight must be put up, in this way or that, and there must be no bowing down. The essential thing was to save the greatest possible number of persons from dying and being doomed to unending separation. And to do this there was only one resource: to fight the plague. There was nothing admirable about this attitude; it was merely logical.” —From The Plague, by Albert Camus ACKNOWLEDGMENTS AUTHOR’S NOTE INTRODUCTION CHAPTER ONE CHAPTER TWO CHAPTER THREE CHAPTER FOUR CHAPTER FIVE CHAPTER SIX CHAPTER SEVEN CHAPTER EIGHT CHAPTER NINE CHAPTER TEN CHAPTER ELEVEN SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The authors wish to thank Kathryn Court, Jill Kneerim, Alexis Washam, and Paul Buckley for their invaluable assistance in the production of this book. AUTHOR’S NOTE This is a work of nonfiction. All of the people and events described herein are true as I remember them. For legal and ethical reasons, I have given pseudonyms to a handful of private Rwandan citizens. Each time this is done, the change is noted in the text. ...
