{"product_id":"a-book-of-my-own","title":"A Book of My Own","description":"\u003cp\u003eA BOOK OF MY OWN tells the story of Mukasonga's self: her name, her exile, how her identity took shape - to \"rebuild,\" as she puts it \"a lost world from memory and preserve the dignity of humanity.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e-----\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eA Book of My Own\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a work on the experience of exile and migration, memory and selfhood, from legendary French-Rwandan storyteller Scholastique Mukasonga.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFor most of her life, Mukasonga was not a writer but a UNESCO social worker. She began writing only in 1994 out of what she called an 'urgency to remember' – her town, her mother, and her thirty-seven family members, who were murdered during the genocide of that year. She recorded everything in a little blue notebook which, in 2006, became an autobiography, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eCockroaches\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMukasonga has since continued to write with similar intent – to 'rebuild a lost world from memory and preserve the dignity of humanity.' In doing so, she has become not only a perennial favourite for the Nobel Prize, but also one of the great humanitarians of our time.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Featherheart Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53209569263840,"sku":"9798987123119","price":3200.0,"currency_code":"JPY","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0772\/4987\/2096\/files\/9798987123119.jpg?v=1782354935","url":"https:\/\/featherheartbooks.com\/products\/a-book-of-my-own","provider":"Featherheart Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}