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Hailed by the Guardian as one of the hundred greatest nonfiction books of all time, We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families is a first-hand account one of the defining outrages of modern history, an unforgettable anatomy of Rwanda's decimation. In college I read We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families. Well, the title, 'We wish to inform you that tomorrow we will be killed with our families,' comes from a letter that was sent in the midst of the genocide in Rwanda in 1994 by seven Tutsi pastors. An unforgettable firsthand account of a peoples response to genocide and what it tells us about humanity. A year later, Philip Gourevitch went to Rwanda to investigate the most unambiguous genocide since Hitler's war against the Jews. We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families is the winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. Close to a million people were slaughtered in a hundred days, and the rest of the world did nothing to stop it. In 1994, the Rwandan government orchestrated a campaign of extermination, in which everyone in the Hutu majority was called upon to murder everyone in the Tutsi minority. His last book, 'We Wish to Inform You that Tomorrow We Will be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda' (FSG, 1998), won the National Book Critics Circle & Los Angeles Times Book Awards. We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwanda is a 1998 non-fiction book by The New Yorker writer Philip Gourevitch about the 1994 Rwandan genocide, in which an estimated 1,000,000 Tutsis and Hutus were killed.

This is what fascinates me most in existence: the peculiar necessity of imagining what is, in fact, real. Philip Gourevitch, a staff writer at 'The New Yorker', lives in New York City. We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With. Winner of the Guardian First Book award, a first-hand account one of the defining outrages of modern history.Īll at once, as it seemed, something we could have only imagined was upon us - and we could still only imagine it.