I Saw the Devil, I Saw God

Wakesho Publishers. Very Good. 2010 signed first edition Wakesho Publishers (San Bernardino, Calif.), 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 inches tall trade paperback, 268 pp. Signed by author on title page. Minor rubbing to covers. Otherwise, a very good to near fine copy. ~UU~ Arriving in the United States with nothing as a refugee, Charles Mwumvaneza has labored for years to have his incredible story heard. An unusual survivor of the infamous Rwandan genocide of 1994, Charles was marked for death and persecuted by individuals on both sides of the country's civil war. Though he opposed the artificial division of his country by colonialists into fictitious "tribes", Charles nevertheless possessed features from both groups. As members of Rwanda's Tutsi minority were exterminated by the thousands, Charles' hometown became a killing field as he and his wife Jeanne were hunted and chased for weeks on end by armed militias, their home and family destroyed. Charles was forced to rely on unlikely allies, torturous hiding places, and his newly-rediscovered faith in order to stay alive, desperate to outlast the genocide and reunite what remained of his family. After a shocking series of tragedies and miracles, he reaches safety at the U.N. controlled National Stadium.