{"product_id":"jacaranda","title":"Jacaranda","description":"\u003cb\u003eA young man journeys from Paris to Rwanda to discover the truth about his mother's past and the country of her birth, from bestselling and prize-winning Rwandan-French novelist and hip-hop artist Gael Faye\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e 'A luminous poetic quality ... unforgettable' Leila Slimani\u003cbr\u003e 'Utterly, captivatingly brilliant' Philippe Sands\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Milan - the twelve-year-old son of a French father and a Rwandan mother - blames flunking his exams on the emotional trauma of the genocide in his mother's homeland. It's a convenient excuse: growing up outside Paris in the 1990s, the violence is an abstraction that only reaches him through distant television broadcasts.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e That is, until Milan's mother introduces him to Claude, a young cousin with a bandaged head who has come to France seeking medical treatment. Thrilled to have a new playmate, Milan treats Claude as a brother until one day, he is sent back to Rwanda as quickly as he came.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Four years later, Milan travels for the first time to Rwanda, encountering a beguiling country and family members he never knew existed, and reuniting with Claude. But the trip raises more questions than it answers - about Milan's family history, the war and its aftershocks.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Over the course of many years, Milan returns to Rwanda again and again, compelled to confront the past and imagine a new kind of future. \u003ci\u003eJacaranda\u003c\/i\u003e is a deeply felt portrait of a man seeking to understand his family and his nation.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'A writer of great promise and grace' Chigozie Obioma\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e'Gael Faye's talent is breathtaking' Imbolo Mbue\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Unity Books","offers":[{"title":"Jacaranda","offer_id":46868787134661,"sku":null,"price":45.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0625\/6679\/3413\/files\/978-1-78474-606-3.jpg?v=1788638988","url":"https:\/\/unitybooks.myshopify.com\/products\/jacaranda","provider":"Unity Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}