Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst The Rwandan Holocaust
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- ISBN13: 9781401911492
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- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Immaculee Ilibagiza grew up in a country she loved, surrounded by a family tree she cherished. But in 1994 her idyllic world was ripped apart as Rwanda descended into a bloody genocide. Immaculee’s family tree was cruelly murdered during a killing bender that lasted three months and claimed the lives of nearly a million Rwandans.
Incredibly, Immaculee survived the slaughter. For 91 days, she and seven additional women huddled silently together in the cramped bathroom of a local pastor while hundreds of machete-wielding killers hunted for them.
It was during persons endless hours of unspeakable terror that Immaculee learned the power of prayer, eventually shedding her dread of death and forging a profound and lasting relationship with God. She emerged from her bathroom hiding place having learned the meaning of truly unconditional like—a like so strong she was able seek out and forgive her family tree’s killers.
The triumphant tale of this remarkable young woman’s journey through the darkness of genocide will inspire anyone whose life has been touched by dread, suffering, and loss.
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Very powerful book to read. Stays with you even when you are finished.
I loved it!
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
While I have no doubt that the leader lived through the Rwandan holocaust and came out of it with her faith enriched, I find myself reading the tale itself with skepticism and copious questions, such as: (1) Where did all the pictures come from if everything in the family tree home was ruined? (2) Why does the 65 pound leader 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 leader have nothing to do with the additional occupants, adage 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 persons three months? (5) Why did she wait so long to contact her extant brother when her family tree was supposed to be so incredibly close? (6) Why is she so careful to inform the reader that she did not tell her full tale to either her spouse or her brother? Was it so that they would not marvel when they read the book why they were hearing some of the details of the tale for the first time? (7) If the leader had not prayed so deeply and set up such a relationship with God while in the bathroom, would the additional women have been caught and slaughtered? Why is only she of importance to God? I find the leader utterly self-absorbed in this book. It is all me, me, me. No one else seems to matter.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
There is only one word to clarify this book and it is BRILLIANT! If you would like a wonderful book to read I would advise you to read this book!
Pleased reading
Char:)
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
The book is a simple to read insider’s view of a genocide and well worth reading from that point of view. But, as a devotional book giving insight into prayer, it is seriously flawed. Understandably the leader was seeking escape in her prayer, finding a small 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 persons 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 leader with persons hiding with her. The second error which crept into the leader’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 leader’s prayer, highlight the importance of guidance through spiritual direction of one seeking a closer relationship with God through prayer.
Reader’s Rating: 5 / 5
From the first page, there’s something sham about this book, but it’s hard to pin down. I have no doubt that Immaculee lost her entire family tree, and I’m very sorry for what happened to her and her people. I judge the basic facts of the tale, because I remember news accounts of the time, but some of Immaculee’s details sound fake. Eight women hiding in a bathroom three feet by four feet, (with a toilet taking up some of the room,) and the minister throws in a mattress for them? At one point in the tale, she says there were 40 to 50 killers in the room next to her. How could she possibly have known how many there were? She’s a tall woman weighing 115 pounds at the beginning of the tale, (hard enough to judge in itself,) then she loses 50 pounds over the next three months, getting down to 65 pounds, and the night they are let out of the bathroom, she runs to safety? How could she even walk? By the way, how could she know she weighed 65 pounds, when she lived in very primitive conditions for the next several weeks. But it’s not just the weird and contradictory details, but the whole tone of the book that seems fake. I notice on her web site that she has a full language schedule, she makes copious media appearances, and that she recently signed a movie contract. Since the book was written twelve years after the war, maybe she had gotten into the habit of building a excellent tale even better. Too terrible. The simple truth would have had a deeper impact.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5