King Musinga's Cow and Other Rwandan Stories... by Mukasonga

"I never saw my grandfather again. But I often like to imagine that he was welcomed into the Tutsi paradise. And up there, when the shepherd angel untangled the fence of branches that closed the gate of the enclosure and, with his staff, pointed out the herd of cows that he would graze in the heavenly meadows, grandfather cried out: "Yampaye inka Musinga! Oh you, Musinga, who gave me a cow!" Three Rwandan short stories by Scholastique Mukasonga, winner of the 2012 Renaudot Prize: a poignant and luminous evocation of the torments and hopes of an entire people.