Running the Rift - Couverture souple

'This is truly fearless writing: ambitious, beautiful, unapologetically passionate.' --Barbara Kingsolver, author 'The Poisonwood Bible' and founder of the Bellwether Prize

'A novel full of unspeakable strife but also joy, humour, and love, ''hope always [chases] close on the heels of despair,'' thanks to a writer who knows when to keep a steady pace and when to explode into an all-out sprint.' --O: The Oprah Magazine

'It is a testament to Benaron's skill that a novel about genocide about neighbours and friends savagely turning on one another conveys so profoundly the joys of family, friendship, and community.' --Publishers Weekly, starred review

Impressive... Benaron is a subtle writer --Metro

'It is a testament to Benaron's skill that a novel about genocide about neighbours and friends savagely turning on one another conveys so profoundly the joys of family, friendship, and community.' --Publishers Weekly, starred review

Impressive... Benaron is a subtle writer --Metro

'It is a testament to Benaron's skill that a novel about genocide about neighbours and friends savagely turning on one another conveys so profoundly the joys of family, friendship, and community.' --Publishers Weekly, starred review

Jean Patrick Nkuba dreams of becoming the first Rwandan to run in the Olympics. But Jean Patrick is a Tutsi and his kind are not supposed to win. When the president's assassination plummets the country into sudden and bloody chaos Hutu against Tutsi, neighbour against neighbour Jean Patrick is left without protection and without any choice. Now he must run: from his home, from his family, from the woman he loves. Finding them again will be the race of his life. Evoking the raw beauty of Rwanda and the tragedy of its recent past, Running the Rift is a truly stunning novel of a people's trauma, of lives lost, and of loves salvaged.