Tears of a Man Flow Inward - Growing Up in the Civil War in Burundi (Irankunda Pacifique)(Pevná vazba)

A prize-winning young author tells the moving story of growing up during Burundi's civil war in a powerful memoir hailed as "a jewel of a book" (Margaret MacMillan) When I felt tears streaming down, I wiped my eyes and repeated to myself what I heard the adults say, that the tears of a man flow inward.

As a little boy, Pacifique Irankunda lived through the thirteen-year civil war in Burundi, the war that upended his home and family and destroyed Burundi's beautiful culture and traditions. He hid and watched as military units destroyed his village. Paci's extraordinary and wise mother, one of the inspiring beacons of light in this book, led her children and others in ingenious acts of survival and kindness, through her unique ability to bring out the good in people, generosity towards even the soldiers who threatened them, and in her role as a
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