Jacaranda

What secrets does Stella's favourite tree, the jacaranda, hide? It will take her friend Milan years to find out. Years to pierce the silences of Rwanda, devastated by the Tutsi genocide. By giving a voice back to the disappeared, the young men escape their loneliness. And find peace near the magnificent shores of Lake Kivu.

Jacaranda is not a book about genocide. Gaël Faye is deeply interested in the silence that shrouds the survivors of the Rwandan genocide. He seeks to understand the reasons for this silence, without ever judging or accusing.

With delicacy, he gives voice to the unspeakable, to what we keep silent in order to go on living... And at the heart of this silence, he describes how a people lives together as best they can, where victims and former executioners try to cohabit in a climate where, despite everything, mistrust remains palpable.