The oldest orphan =: L'aîné des orphelins /
Tierno Monénembo was among the African authors invited to Rwanda after the 1994 Tutsi-Hutu massacre to "write genocide into memory." In his novel The Oldest Orphan, that is precisely what Monénembo does, to devastating effect. Powerful testimony to an unspeakable historical reality, this...
| Main Authors: | , |
|---|---|
| Other Authors: | |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English French |
| Published: |
Lincoln :
University of Nebraska Press,
[2004], ©2004
Lincoln : c2004 Lincoln : ©2004 Lincoln : [2004] |
| Subjects: |
| LEADER | 08900nam a2201441 a 4500 | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| 001 | afd5a750-3c5a-4c5c-a954-e7022893235d | ||
| 005 | 20240926000000.0 | ||
| 008 | 030424t20042004nbu 000 1 eng | ||
| 010 | |a 2003009666 | ||
| 010 | |a 2003009666 | ||
| 010 | |a ^^2003009666 | ||
| 020 | |a 0803232241 (hardcover : alk. paper) | ||
| 020 | |a 0803232241 |q (hardcover : alk. paper) | ||
| 020 | |a 0803232241 |q hardcover |q alkaline paper | ||
| 020 | |a 0803282850 (pbk. : alk. paper) | ||
| 020 | |a 0803282850 |q (pbk. : alk. paper) | ||
| 020 | |a 0803282850 |q paperback |q alkaline paper | ||
| 020 | |a 9780803232242 (hardcover : alk. paper) | ||
| 020 | |a 9780803232242 |q (hardcover : alk. paper) | ||
| 020 | |a 9780803282858 (pbk. : alk. paper) | ||
| 020 | |a 9780803282858 |q (pbk. : alk. paper) | ||
| 035 | |a (DLC) 2003009666 | ||
| 035 | |a (DLC) 2003009666 | ||
| 035 | |a (MCM)001247162MIT01 | ||
| 035 | |a (NNC)4369817 | ||
| 035 | |a (NhD)b31399010-01dcl_inst | ||
| 035 | |a (NjP)4144872-princetondb | ||
| 035 | |a (OCoLC)52153953 |z (OCoLC)56462988 |z (OCoLC)1022641268 |z (OCoLC)1176215750 |z (OCoLC)1176216054 | ||
| 035 | |a (OCoLC)52153953 | ||
| 035 | |a (OCoLC)ocm52153953 |9 ExL | ||
| 035 | |a (OCoLC)ocm52153953 | ||
| 035 | |a (OCoLC)ocn691055343 | ||
| 035 | |a (OCoLC-I)270345190 | ||
| 035 | |a (OCoLC-M)52153953 | ||
| 035 | |a (PU)3512950-penndb-Voyager | ||
| 035 | |a (Sirsi) ybp2053591 | ||
| 035 | |a 3512950 | ||
| 035 | |a 4369817 | ||
| 035 | |a 5032566 | ||
| 035 | |a 6560137 | ||
| 035 | |b b31399010 | ||
| 035 | |z (NjP)Voyager4144872 | ||
| 040 | |a DLC |b eng |c DLC |d DLC | ||
| 040 | |a DLC |b eng |c DLC |d YDX |d OCLCQ | ||
| 040 | |a DLC |c DLC |d DLC |d CtY | ||
| 040 | |a DLC |c DLC |d DLC |d NhCcYBP | ||
| 040 | |a DLC |c DLC |d DRB | ||
| 040 | |a DLC |c DLC |d MYG | ||
| 040 | |a DLC |c DLC |d YDX |d OCLCQ |d NIC | ||
| 040 | |a DLC |c DLC |d YDX |d OCLCQ | ||
| 040 | |a DLC |c DLC | ||
| 041 | 1 | |a eng |h fre | |
| 042 | |a pcc | ||
| 043 | |a f-rw--- | ||
| 049 | |a DRBB | ||
| 049 | |a MYGG | ||
| 049 | |a PAUU | ||
| 050 | 0 | 0 | |a PQ3989.2.M58 |b A7613 2004 |
| 050 | 0 | 0 | |a PQ3989.2.M58.A7613 2004 |
| 079 | |a ocm52153953 | ||
| 082 | 0 | 0 | |a 843/.914 |2 21 |
| 100 | 1 | |a Monénembo, Tierno, |d 1947- |0 http://viaf.org/viaf/64009518 | |
| 100 | 1 | |a Monénembo, Tierno, |d 1947- | |
| 100 | 1 | |a Monénembo, Tierno, |d 1947- | |
| 240 | 1 | 0 | |a Aîné des orphelins |l English |
| 240 | 1 | 0 | |a Aîné des orphelins |l English |
| 240 | 1 | 0 | |a Aîné des orphelins |l English. |
| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The oldest orphan =: |b L'aîné des orphelins / |c Tierno Monénembo ; translated by Monique Fleury Nagem ; with an introduction by Adele King |
| 246 | 1 | 1 | |a Aîné des orphelins |
| 246 | 1 | 1 | |a Aîné des orphelins |
| 246 | 3 | 1 | |a Aîné des orphelins |
| 260 | |a Lincoln : |b University of Nebraska Press, |c [2004], ©2004 | ||
| 260 | |a Lincoln : |b University of Nebraska Press, |c c2004 | ||
| 260 | |a Lincoln : |b University of Nebraska Press, |c ©2004 | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a Lincoln : |b University of Nebraska Press, |c [2004] | |
| 264 | 4 | |c ©2004 | |
| 300 | |a xiii, 96 p. ; |c 23 cm | ||
| 300 | |a xiii, 96 p. ; |c 24 cm | ||
| 300 | |a xiii, 96 pages ; |c 23 cm | ||
| 300 | |a xiii, 96 pages ; |c 24 cm | ||
| 336 | |a text |b txt |2 rdacontent | ||
| 337 | |a unmediated |b n |2 rdamedia | ||
| 338 | |a volume |b nc |2 rdacarrier | ||
| 500 | |a This WorldCat-derived record is shareable under Open Data Commons ODC-BY, with attribution to OCLC |5 CTY | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references | ||
| 520 | |a Tierno Monénembo was among the African authors invited to Rwanda after the 1994 Tutsi-Hutu massacre to "write genocide into memory." In his novel The Oldest Orphan, that is precisely what Monénembo does, to devastating effect. Powerful testimony to an unspeakable historical reality, this story is told by an adolescent on death row in a prison in Kigali, the capital of Rwanda. Dispassionately, almost cynically, the teenager Faustin tells his tale, alternating between his days in jail, his adventures wandering the countryside after his parents and most of the people of his village have been massacred, and his escapades as a cheerful hoodlum in the streets of Kigali. Only slowly does the full horror of his parents' death and his own experience return to Faustin. His realization strikes the reader with shattering force, for it carries in its wake the impossible but inescapable questions presented by such a murderous episode of history and such a crippling experience for a child, a people, and a nation | ||
| 611 | 2 | 7 | |a Civil War (Rwanda : 1994) |2 fast |
| 647 | 7 | |a Rwandan Civil War |c (Rwanda : |d 1994) |2 fast |0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1352318 | |
| 648 | 7 | |a 1994 |2 fast | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Genocide |z Rwanda |v Fiction | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Political atrocities |z Rwanda |v Fiction | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Rwandan Genocide, Rwanda, 1994 |v Fiction | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Genocide |2 fast | |
| 650 | 7 | |a Political atrocities |2 fast | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Rwanda |x History |y Civil War, 1994 |v Fiction | |
| 651 | 7 | |a Rwanda |2 fast | |
| 655 | 7 | |a Fiction |2 fast |0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1423787 | |
| 655 | 7 | |a Fiction |2 fast | |
| 655 | 7 | |a Fiction |2 lcgft | |
| 655 | 7 | |a History |2 fast |0 http://id.worldcat.org/fast/1411628 | |
| 655 | 7 | |a History |2 fast | |
| 655 | 7 | |a Romans |2 rvmgf | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Nagem, Monique F., |d 1941- |0 http://viaf.org/viaf/27305939 | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Nagem, Monique F., |d 1941- | |
| 999 | 1 | 0 | |i afd5a750-3c5a-4c5c-a954-e7022893235d |l a5574408 |s US-CST |m oldest_orphanlaine_des_orphelins___________________________________________2004_______univea________________________________________monenembo__tierno__________________p |
| 999 | 1 | 0 | |i afd5a750-3c5a-4c5c-a954-e7022893235d |l 6560137 |s US-CTY |m oldest_orphanlaine_des_orphelins___________________________________________2004_______univea________________________________________monenembo__tierno__________________p |
| 999 | 1 | 0 | |i afd5a750-3c5a-4c5c-a954-e7022893235d |l 990012471620106761 |s US-MCM |m oldest_orphanlaine_des_orphelins___________________________________________2004_______univea________________________________________monenembo__tierno__________________p |
| 999 | 1 | 0 | |i afd5a750-3c5a-4c5c-a954-e7022893235d |l 990093046940203941 |s US-MH |m oldest_orphanlaine_des_orphelins___________________________________________2004_______univea________________________________________monenembo__tierno__________________p |
| 999 | 1 | 0 | |i afd5a750-3c5a-4c5c-a954-e7022893235d |l 991028354229705706 |s US-NHD |m oldest_orphanlaine_des_orphelins___________________________________________2004_______univea________________________________________monenembo__tierno__________________p |
| 999 | 1 | 0 | |i afd5a750-3c5a-4c5c-a954-e7022893235d |l 5032566 |s US-NIC |m oldest_orphanlaine_des_orphelins___________________________________________2004_______univea________________________________________monenembo__tierno__________________p |
| 999 | 1 | 0 | |i afd5a750-3c5a-4c5c-a954-e7022893235d |l 9941448723506421 |s US-NJP |m oldest_orphanlaine_des_orphelins___________________________________________2004_______univea________________________________________monenembo__tierno__________________p |
| 999 | 1 | 0 | |i afd5a750-3c5a-4c5c-a954-e7022893235d |l 4369817 |s US-NNC |m oldest_orphanlaine_des_orphelins___________________________________________2004_______univea________________________________________monenembo__tierno__________________p |
| 999 | 1 | 0 | |i afd5a750-3c5a-4c5c-a954-e7022893235d |l 9935129503503681 |s US-PU |m oldest_orphanlaine_des_orphelins___________________________________________2004_______univea________________________________________monenembo__tierno__________________p |
| 999 | 1 | 1 | |l a5574408 |s ISIL:US-CST |t BKS |b b2795142-3670-510e-b5a1-b8e7ff248b88 |y b2795142-3670-510e-b5a1-b8e7ff248b88 |p UNLOANABLE |
| 999 | 1 | 1 | |l a5574408 |s ISIL:US-CST |t BKS |a SAL3-STACKS |b 36105111936493 |c PQ3989.2 .M58 A7613 2004 |d Library of Congress classification |k 1 |x book |y 36105111936493 |p UNLOANABLE |
| 999 | 1 | 1 | |l 990012471620106761 |s ISIL:US-MCM |t BKS |a HUM STACK |b 39080026399508 |c PQ3989.2.M58.A7613 2004 |d 0 |x BOOK |y 23493776210006761 |p LOANABLE |
| 999 | 1 | 1 | |l 990093046940203941 |s ISIL:US-MH |t BKS |a WID WIDLC |b 32044072795636 |c PQ3989.2.M58 A7613 2004 |d 0 |x 01 BOOK |y 232084108370003941 |p LOANABLE |
| 999 | 1 | 1 | |l 991028354229705706 |s ISIL:US-NHD |t BKS |a BAKER STACKS |b 33311004967479 |c PQ3989.2.M58 A7613 2004 |d 0 |x BOOK |y 23159995980005706 |p LOANABLE |
| 999 | 1 | 1 | |l 5032566 |s ISIL:US-NIC |t BKS |a olin |b 31924098368685 |c PQ3989.2.M58 A7613 2004 |d lc |k 1 |x Book |y 4a27a069-23b4-403c-b6c5-92811575a487 |p LOANABLE |
| 999 | 1 | 1 | |l 9941448723506421 |s ISIL:US-NJP |t BKS |a recap pa |b 32101049376047 |c PQ3989.2.M58 A7613 2004 |d 0 |x Gen |y 23518124330006421 |p LOANABLE |
| 999 | 1 | 1 | |l 4369817 |s ISIL:US-NNC |t BKS |a afst |b 0065184475 |c PQ3989.2.M58 A7613 2004 |y 5675232 |p UNLOANABLE |
| 999 | 1 | 1 | |l 4369817 |s ISIL:US-NNC |t BKS |a glx |b 0063822636 |c PQ3989.2.M58 A7613 2004 |y 4636333 |p LOANABLE |
| 999 | 1 | 1 | |l 9935129503503681 |s ISIL:US-PU |t BKS |a VanPeltLib vanp |b 31198038263641 |c PQ3989.2.M58 A7613 2004 |d 0 |x BOOK |y 23416035330003681 |p LOANABLE |