{"product_id":"9781784746063","title":"Jacaranda","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Gael Faye\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eModern \u0026amp; contemporary fiction (post c 1945)\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 6 August 2026 by Vintage Publishing (Chatto \u0026amp; Windus) in the United Kingdom.\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003ch4\u003eHardback | 256 pages\u003cbr\u003e144 x 223 x 26mm | 366g\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003chr\u003e\u003cp\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 Gaël Faye‘A luminous poetic quality … unforgettable’ Leïla Slimani‘Utterly, captivatingly brilliant’ Philippe SandsMilan – 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThat 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFour 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘A writer of great promise and grace’ Chigozie Obioma‘Gaël Faye’s talent is breathtaking’ Imbolo Mbue\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gael Faye","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":65544614478173,"sku":"9781784746063","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1074\/9358\/9341\/files\/9781784746063.jpg?v=1786451213","url":"https:\/\/adventureintobooks.co.uk\/products\/9781784746063","provider":"Adventure Into Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}