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A young man journeys from Paris to Rwanda to discover the truth about his mother’s past and the country of her birth, from bestselling and prize-winning Rwandan-French novelist and hip-hop artist Gaël Faye Milan – the twelve-year-old son of a French father and a Rwandan mother – blames...

Quels secrets cache l’ombre du jacaranda, l’arbre fétiche de Stella ? Il faudra à son ami Milan des années pour le découvrir. Des années pour percer les silences du Rwanda, dévasté après le génocide des Tutsi. En rendant leur parole aux disparus, les jeunes gens échapperont à la solitude. Et trouveront la paix près des rivages magnifiques du lac Kivu. Sur quatre générations, avec sa douceur unique, Gaël Faye nous raconte l’histoire terrible d’un pays qui s’essaie malgré tout au dialogue et au pardon.

Versailles, 1994. Milan ha dodici anni e vive con il padre Philippe, francese, e la madre Venancia, ruandese, ma conosce poco o nulla delle sue radici africane, perché Venancia non ha mai voluto condividere ricordi della sua vita passata. Solo quattro anni dopo, quando parte per Kigali con la madre, Milan lo ritroverà e scoprirà anche l'esistenza di una nonna, della "Zia" Eusébie e di sua figlia Stella, che fin da bambina ama arrampicarsi tra i rami dell'enorme albero di jacaranda che cresce nel suo giardino.

A young man journeys from Paris to Rwanda to discover the truth about his family’s past in this bestselling, prize-winning novel from internationally renowned Rwandan-French novelist and hip-hop artist Gaël Faye. “There is magic in Gaël Faye’s writing . . . This book is unforgettable.”...

Versalles, 1994. Aunque crece en un entorno feliz, el pequeño Milan sufre con el obstinado silencio de su madre ruandesa sobre sus orígenes y su familia. Ese desconocimiento sólo se irá diluyendo poco a poco, primero con las imágenes del genocidio y luego con la llegada del joven y malherido Claude, al que acogerán durante unos días. Cuatro años más tarde, cuando Milan visite Ruanda por primera vez junto a su madre, su estancia allí supondrá para él una experiencia tan honda que acabará cambiando su vida para siempre.

While held in Tehran's notorious Evin Prison, Azar gives birth to a baby girl whom she fears she cannot keep. Arash, a fellow revolutionary, makes his daughter a bracelet of date stones, knowing it will be all she has to remember him by. Leila has to choose between fleeing Iran with her lover or staying to care for the children of her imprisoned sisters. And Forugh must grow up in the shadow of her parent's deaths. Courageous, heart-wrenching and beautifully written, Children of the Jacaranda Tree is a novel about family, sacrifice, and the search for a better world.