Bøger af Gaël Faye

Burundi 1992. Bogens fortæller, Gaby er 10 år. Han bor sammen med sin lillesøster og sin franske far og rwandiske mor i hovedstaden og fortæller om drengestreger og kammeratskab. To år senere bliver tutsier i Rwanda myrdet, og Gabys mor tager af sted for at finde overlevende. Forgæves. Myrderierne breder sig til Burundi, og pludselig en ven ikke en ven, men en tutsi, hutu eller hvid. Gaby er vidne til forældrenes skilsmisse og til den forvandling, der sker med hans elskede land.

French-Rwandan Ga¿Faye is an author, composer and hip hop artist. He was born in 1982 in Burundi, and has a Rwandan mother and French father. In 1995, after the outbreak of the civil war and the Rwandan genocide, the family moved to France. Ga¿studied finance and worked in London for two years for an investment fund, then he left London to embark on a career of writing and music. He is as influenced by Creole literature as he is by hip hop culture, and released an album in 2010 with the group Milk Coffee & Sugar. In 2013, his first solo album, Pili Pili sur un Croissant au Beurre, appeared. It was recorded between Bujumbura and Paris, and is filled with a plethora of musical influences: rap laced with soul and jazz, semba, Congolese rumba... In 2018 he received the prestigious Victoires de la Musique Award.Small Country is his first novel. It was a huge bestseller in France, winning the Prix Goncourt des Lyc¿s 2016, and is being published in thirty territories worldwide.