{"product_id":"9781784746063-jacaranda","title":"Jacaranda","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e‘A writer of great promise and grace’ Chigozie Obioma\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMilan – the twelve-year-old son of a French father and a Rwandan mother – blames flunking his exams on the emotional trauma of the genocide in his mother’s homeland. It’s a convenient excuse: growing up outside Paris in the 1990s, the violence is an abstraction that only reaches him through distant television broadcasts.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThat is, until Milan’s mother introduces him to Claude, a young cousin with a bandaged head who has come to France seeking medical treatment. Thrilled to have a new playmate, Milan treats Claude as a brother until one day, he is sent back to Rwanda as quickly as he came.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFour years later, Milan travels for the first time to Rwanda, encountering a beguiling country and family members he never knew existed, and reuniting with Claude. But the trip raises more questions for Milan than it answers – about his family’s history, the war and its aftershocks.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOver the course of many years, Milan will return to Rwanda again and again, compelled to confront the past and imagine a new kind of future. \u003ci\u003eJacaranda \u003c\/i\u003eis a rich and deeply felt portrait of a man seeking to understand his family and his nation as it heals from the unthinkable.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e‘Gaël Faye’s talent is breathtaking’ Imbolo Mbue\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56642958328182,"sku":"9781784746063","price":15.82,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_41515329.jpg?v=1780539354","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781784746063-jacaranda","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}