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Name: Over a Thousand Hills I Walk With You
Author: Hanna Jansen
Year: 2003
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Genres/categories: Young adult, Historical fiction

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Winner of the Buxtehuder Bulle award in 2002.

Before that fateful April day, Jeanne lived the life of a typical Rwandan girl. She bickered with her little sister, went to school, teased her brother. Then, in one horrifying night, everything changed. Political troubles unleashed a torrent of violence upon the Tutsi ethnic group. Jeanne's family, all Tutsis, fled their home and tried desperately to reach safety.

They did not succeed. As the only survivor of her family's massacre, Jeanne witnessed unspeakable acts. This haunting story was told to Jeanne's adoptive mother, and here she makes unforgettably real the events of the 1994 Rwandan genocide.


Originally published in German: Stuttgard, Germany: Thienemann Verlag, 2002.
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