- ISBN13: 9781401908973
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- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Immaculee Ilibagiza grew up in a country she loved, surrounded by a family she cherished. But in 1994 her idyllic world was ripped apart as Rwanda descended into a bloody genocide. Immaculee’s family was brutally murdered during a killing spree that lasted three months and claimed the lives of nearly a million Rwandans.
Incredibly, Immaculee survived the slaughter. For 91 days, she and seven other women huddled silently together in the cramped bathro… More >>
Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust
While I have no doubt that the author lived through the Rwandan holocaust and came out of it with her faith enriched, I find myself reading the story itself with skepticism and numerous questions, such as: (1) Where did all the pictures come from if everything in the family home was destroyed? (2) Why does the 65 pound author wearing clothes she has not taken off for more than three months appear in the picture at the French camp, only days or a few weeks at most after getting out of the bathroom, as a normal 120 pound woman wearing pretty clothes and with a pretty hairdo? (3)Why was the bathroom door invisible to the maruading killers even though according to the picture the wardrobe was not as high as it? (4) Why after leaving the bathroom did the deeply spiritual author have nothing to do with the other occupants, saying she really did not know them? After three months shut up in a tiny bathroom with them? Why are they completely unimportant to her during those three months? (5) Why did she wait so long to contact her surviving brother when her family was supposed to be so incredibly close? (6) Why is she so careful to inform the reader that she did not tell her full story to either her husband or her brother? Was it so that they would not wonder when they read the book why they were hearing some of the details of the story for the first time? (7) If the author had not prayed so deeply and set up such a relationship with God while in the bathroom, would the other women have been caught and slaughtered? Why is only she of importance to God? I find the author utterly self-absorbed in this book. It is all me, me, me. No one else seems to matter.
Rating: 1 / 5
Very powerful book to read. Stays with you even when you are finished.
I loved it!
Rating: 1 / 5
There is only one word to describe this book and it is BRILLIANT! If you would like a wonderful book to read I would advise you to read this book!
Happy reading
Char:)
Rating: 1 / 5
The book is a easy to read insider’s view of a genocide and well worth reading from that point of view. However, as a devotional book giving insight into prayer, it is seriously flawed. Understandably the author was seeking escape in her prayer, finding a little spot where she could hide from the terror. This is not Christian, it may be Eastern, or Manichaean, it is a seeking after Nirvana which isolates us from those around us. Christian prayer integrates us with both God and the world. The effect of this prayer can be seen in that it did not connect the author with those hiding with her. The second error which crept into the author’s prayer was that of creative imaging, again a new age, Eastern, or Wiccan prayer which seeks to control the world, as opposed to Christian prayer where, while asking for what we need and desire, we conform our wills to the will of God. These errors which, undoubtedly unknowingly, crept into the author’s prayer, highlight the importance of guidance through spiritual direction of one seeking a closer relationship with God through prayer.
Rating: 5 / 5
I found this book to be tedious…Genocide is a horrific tragedy, however, Ms. Ilibagiza’s awkward method of writing left me feeling empty. Perhaps she should stick to giving interviews and keep away from writing.
Rating: 2 / 5