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Jacaranda

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Milan has never been to Rwanda; he's an ordinary French teenager, knowing next to nothing about the country his mother hails from or the horrors she fled. But one day, a boy appears on their doorstep, his head pierced by a terrible scar. From that day forward, Milan's life will change, as will he himself. Milan will begin a difficult, long, and tangled journey back to his roots, to his family. And the symbol of this journey will be an old tree—a beautiful jacaranda, which has witnessed everything people have tried to forget.

In her novel, Gaël Faye tells the story of four generations, unfolding before the reader a tragic picture of a country's past that, despite everything, strives for dialogue and forgiveness. This novel explores how memory is sometimes pain, and sometimes a path to healing. And the embodiment of memory is the jacaranda, a symbol of both rootedness and fragility.
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