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The riveting life story of Paul Rusesabagina?the man whose heroism inspired the film Hotel Rwanda
Viking
April 2006
224 pages ISBN: 0670037524 Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir
As his country was being torn apart by violence during the
Rwandan genocide of 1994, hotel manager Paul
Rusesabagina—the "Oskar Schindler of Africa"—refused to bow
to the madness that surrounded him. Confronting killers with
a combination of diplomacy, flattery, and deception, he
offered shelter to more than twelve thousand members of the
Tutsi clan and Hutu moderates, while homicidal mobs raged
outside with machetes. An Ordinary Man explores what the Academy Award-nominated
film Hotel Rwanda could not: the inner life of the man who
became one of the most prominent public faces of that
terrible conflict. Rusesabagina tells for the first time the
full story of his life—growing up as the son of a rural
farmer, the child of a mixed marriage, his extraordinary
career path which led him to become the first Rwandan
manager of the Belgian-owned Hotel Milles Collines—all of
which contributed to his heroic actions in the face of such
horror. He will also bring the reader inside the hotel for
those one hundred terrible days depicted in the film,
relating the anguish of those who watched as their loved
ones were hacked to pieces and the betrayal that he felt as
a result of the UN’s refusal to help at this time of crisis. Including never-before-reported details of the Rwandan
genocide, An Ordinary Man is sure to become a classic of
tolerance literature, joining such books as Thomas
Keneally’s Schindler’s List, Nelson Mandela’s Long Walk to
Freedom, and Elie Wiesel’s Night. Paul Rusesabagina’s
autobiography is the story of one man who did not let fear
get the better of him—a man who found within himself a vast
reserve of courage and bravery, and showed the world how one
"ordinary man" can become a hero.
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