This is a spell-binding story of a Burundian medical student who winds up in New York City after the holocaust in his country. To say much about the book would be to spoil the discoveries a reader will make. It was reviewed on August 30, 2009 in the NY Times Sunday Book Review.
From the NY Times: Strength in What Remains is Deo’s story. And what a tale it is, opening from a passenger seat in an airliner in war-torn Burundi, where Deo, then 24, is leaving behind what once seemed a promising life in Africa as a third-year medical student. It was 1994. Burundi and neighboring Rwanda were exploding in civil wars, in which Hutu and Tutsi were slaughtering one another in one of the 20th century’s most horrifying conflicts. With the help of the privileged family of one of his med-school friends, Deo is able to escape the carnage, bound for America."
Fine photos from Burundi.
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