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Petit pays: roman (Littérature Française) (French Edition) by [Gaël Faye]

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En 1992, Gabriel, dix ans, vit au Burundi avec son père français, entrepreneur, sa mère rwandaise et sa petite sœur, Ana, dans un confortable quartier d’expatriés. Gabriel passe le plus clair de son temps avec ses copains, une joyeuse bande occupée à faire les quatre cents coups. Un quotidien paisible, une enfance douce qui vont se disloquer en même temps que ce « petit pays » d’Afrique brutalement malmené par l’Histoire. Gabriel voit avec inquiétude ses parents se séparer, puis la guerre civile se profiler, suivie du drame rwandais. Le quartier est bouleversé. Par vagues successives, la violence l’envahit, l’imprègne, et tout bascule. Gabriel se croyait un enfant, il va se découvrir métis, Tutsi, Français…
« J’ai écrit ce roman pour faire surgir un monde oublié, pour dire nos instants joyeux, discrets comme des filles de bonnes familles: le parfum de citronnelle dans les rues, les promenades le soir le long des bougainvilliers, les siestes l’après-midi derrière les moustiquaires trouées, les conversations futiles, assis sur un casier de bières, les termites les jours d’orages... J’ai écrit ce roman pour crier à l’univers que nous avons existé, avec nos vies simples, notre train-train, notre ennui, que nous avions des bonheurs qui ne cherchaient qu’à le rester avant d'être expédiés aux quatre coins du monde et de devenir une bande d’exilés, de réfugiés, d’immigrés, de migrants. »
Avec un rare sens du romanesque, Gaël Faye évoque les tourments et les interrogations d’un enfant pris dans une Histoire qui le fait grandir plus vite que prévu. Nourri d’un drame que l’auteur connaît bien, un premier roman d’une ampleur exceptionnelle, parcouru d’ombres et de lumière, de tragique et d’humour, de personnages qui tentent de survivre à la tragédie.

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Franco-rwandais, Gaël Faye est auteur-compositeur-interprète de rap. Aussi influencé par les littératures créoles que par la culture hip hop, il sort un album en 2010 avec le groupe Milk Coffee & Sugar (révélation Printemps de Bourges). En 2013 paraît son premier album solo, Pili Pili sur un Croissant au Beurre. Enregistré entre Bujumbura et Paris, il se nourrit d’influences musicales plurielles : du rap teinté de soul et de jazz, du semba, de la rumba congolaise, du sébène… Il a obtenu en 2014 le Prix Charles Cros des lycéens et enregistre en 2016 un deuxième album : Rythmes et Botanique. Petit pays est son premier roman. --This text refers to the audioCD edition.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ B01KPRKJP8
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Grasset (August 24, 2016)
Publication date ‏ : ‎ August 24, 2016
Language ‏ : ‎ French
File size ‏ : ‎ 1711 KB
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Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
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Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
Print length ‏ : ‎ 214 pages

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Profond !

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 29, 2022

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Magnifique!!! Ce livre est incroyable. J'ai même pas les mots. J'ai besoin de redescendre pour écrire un avis plus précis. Prenez-le !!!!

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Karen M.

Awesome!

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on January 10, 2019

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Comment exprimer tout ce que j'ai ressenti en lisant ce bouquin?....Je n'y arrive pas. I am so proud of this young man whose family I know personally. I even lived with his family for a few months back in 1984! I bet he was too young to recall that! His father, Patrice, could corroborate that of course. He and his sister grew up with my kids in Burundi. I even taught Gaël English for a term at the Ecole Française de Bujumbura in 1994! I recall he loved to daydream in class! A rising star in music too, I am so delighted for him and wish him all the best. This is a book I shall cherish for however many decades I have left to live! Despite its tragic history, I miss so much about Burundi...

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Allegretto

Excellent !

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 1, 2019

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This book is extremely well written and the story is definitely engrossing. Told form a boy's perspective as he grows up it encompasses the difficult and disturbing history of the Hutu/Tutsi conflict as well as personal trials and tribulations between married persons and families . Definitely worth reading. It did take about a month to come (I ordered the French edition and didn't realize it would be coming form Belgium) but it was well worth it. There is an English translation for those who want.

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D.S.

Beautiful memoir

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on November 16, 2016

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Really enjoyed reading this novel, which helps understand so much about the genocide in Rwanda and the killings in Burundi. The early pages are full of descriptions of the country and give a good feel for what it is. The author is also a very good artist and singer. His songs are very well written.

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Margaret J

Wonderful prose from a first time author, well deserving of the prize it received.

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on May 21, 2018

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A prize winning first novel by the French/Rewandan rapper Gaël Faye. Through the eyes of the child he was, the reader also becomes aware of the horrors of the Rewandan and Burundi genocides of the 1990's. A harrowing time in the history of those two countries, yet the author manages to infuse the story with an almost poetic aura.

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Aleksandra

Histoire d'enfant, narrée par un enfant, mais pour les adultes

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on September 2, 2018

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Le type de narration facile à suivre. Souvenir d'un garçon de 10-11 ans, bien vivant, avec ses souhaits, vie de tous les jours, ainsi que défauts (l'histoire de la bicyclette).

Au fond de faits historiques bien réels.

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Perpétue Miganda

Un livre poignant, tout simplement magnifique. C’est une ...

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on August 1, 2018

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Un livre poignant, tout simplement magnifique.C’est une histoire douloureuse qui nous replonge entièrement dans les soubresauts de nos sociétés de la région des Grands-Lacs africains, et qui devraient nous servir de leçon d’histoire afin que cela nous recommence plus

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Carol

Excellent

Reviewed in the United States 🇺🇸 on February 27, 2019

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J’ai beaucoup appréciée cette vision d’une enfance en Afrique, un continent que je n’ai jamais visité. L’écriture est superbe et l’action n’arrete jamais, la tension montant jusqu’à la fin.

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Peter Pearson

Almost too painful to read

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on February 25, 2020

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The book starts with a fairly peaceful setting of family life in Burundi in the 1990s. French father, Rwandan mother (Tutsi), two children - Gabriel (Gaby) and Ana. Mother and father not getting along, the children playing with friends in the little impasse near their home. A trip to Rwanda for a hasty marriage and catch up with family members and the cracks begin to show. Abused at a check point on their way to the wedding Gaby (through whose eyes the story is told) starts to realize that it matters if you're Hutu or Tutsi or even French. Then, the presidents of Rwanda and Burundi are killed when their plane is shot down and the hell of the genocide that the world gradually learnt about begins. What then happens to the family is almost too painful to read. Their world is destroyed for ever.
Incredibly believable, I felt I'd just been through a war zone by the end of the book.

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Paul Blackburn

Very good book.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on June 4, 2021

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Great book by a great singer song writer. See why it won a prize.

Elisabeth Bee

bouleversant

Reviewed in France 🇫🇷 on July 7, 2017

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A lire, absolument.
Je n'ai jamais été autant bouleversée par un livre. Je viens de le terminer et j'ai alors pleuré comme une madeleine.
J'avais envie d'en savoir plus sur la guerre au Burundi et au Rwanda, et j'ai été servie par ce témoignage qui va beaucoup plus loin qu'une simple narration des faits. Ce livre est débordant d'humanité et dévoile ou explique les mécanismes qui font qu'un humain puisse devenir plus sage, ou fou - parfois au point d'assassiner ses congénères pour des raisons qui n'en sont pas : Prothé, avec son sale caractère parfois mais aussi sa profonde gentillesse, en est un exemple flagrant, la mère de Gaël Faye aussi, mais il y en a bien d'autres. C'est horrible, tous ces assassinats d'innocents, ces pressions sur l'individu qui refuse de choisir un camp.
Un grand merci à Gaël Faye pour sa franchise : ce livre devrait être lu par un maximum de personnes, afin de les rassurer et de leur faire comprendre à quel point nous devons nous battre pour la paix. Et puis, il contient un magnifique hommage à la lecture, tellement indispensable pour comprendre ce que nous sommes.

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Francine Palant

A wonderful book

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on May 30, 2018

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A very vivid, humane and moving account of a happy childhood interrupted by war. Beautifully written. It is about to be published in English. Rush and get it!

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Petit Pays- Grand Livre

Reviewed in the United Kingdom 🇬🇧 on November 10, 2018

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I loved this book. It is a wonderful evocation of a childhood and of the awakening of emotional and political understanding. It is absolutely crying out to be made into a film such is the cinematic quality of the story. The writing is beautiful and I am going to use it with my French class. I recommend it wholeheartedly.

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