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Jacaranda

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Jacaranda

著者: Gaël Faye, Sarah Ardizzone - translator
ナレーター: Ery Nzaramba
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A 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 Gaël Faye

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.

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.

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.

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. Jacaranda is a deeply felt portrait of a man seeking to understand his family and his nation.

‘A luminous poetic quality … unforgettable’ Leïla Slimani
‘Utterly, captivatingly brilliant’ Philippe Sands

‘A writer of great promise and grace’ Chigozie Obioma
‘Gaël Faye’s talent is breathtaking’ Imbolo Mbue

© Gaël Faye 2026 (P) Penguin Audio 2026

20世紀 世界文学 大衆小説 家庭生活 文芸小説 歴史小説
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A bold and uncompromising book
Crisply translated by Sarah Ardizzone, Jacaranda is a powerful account of a country’s fragmentation, the horrific violence neighbours inflicted on neighbours and intergenerational trauma
'A nuanced exploration of conflict and the meaning of resolution. Though it is focused on Rwanda ... the question of whether people can forgive and forget past wrongs is a universal one. Hope lies with the next generation.'
'There is magic in Gaël Faye’s writing. A luminous poetic quality that sheds light on History without tempering it—probing, with supreme clarity, the secrets of a country and a family. Through the beauty of his style, he speaks humanely and compassionately about the worst atrocities. This book is unforgettable.'
‘A work of rare, poetic and haunting qualities, on memory, identity and justice, and the humanity that horror might beget. Memorable and utterly, captivatingly brilliant.’
'A novel about time and its effects, about what it does to people, to memory, to places. . . .Above all a novel that speaks out against silence.'
'A deeply felt exploration of memory, inheritance, and the possibility that something beautiful can emerge from the worst type of atrocity . . . populate[d] with vivid and morally complex characters.'
'An extraordinary life force emanates from these pages.'
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