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Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust | 
| Author: Immaculee Ilibagiza
Publisher: Hay House
Category: Book
List Price: $14.95
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Rating:  381 reviews
Sales Rank: 913
Media: Paperback
Pages: 215
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.8
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.7
ISBN: 1401908977
Dewey Decimal Number: 282.092
EAN: 9781401908973
ASIN: 1401908977
Publication Date: June 1, 2007
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Product Description
Immaculee Ilibagiza grew up in a country she loved, surrounded by a family she cherished. But in 1994 her idyllic world was ripped apart as Rwanda descended into a bloody genocide. Immaculee’s family was brutally murdered during a killing spree that lasted three months and claimed the lives of nearly a million Rwandans.
Incredibly, Immaculee survived the slaughter. For 91 days, she and seven other women huddled silently together in the cramped bathroom of a local pastor while hundreds of machete-wielding killers hunted for them.
It was during those endless hours of unspeakable terror that Immaculee discovered the power of prayer, eventually shedding her fear of death and forging a profound and lasting relationship with God. She emerged from her bathroom hideout having discovered the meaning of truly unconditional love—a love so strong she was able seek out and forgive her family’s killers.
The triumphant story of this remarkable young woman’s journey through the darkness of genocide will inspire anyone whose life has been touched by fear, suffering, and loss.
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A must read for everyone! December 20, 2008
Books, books, books (BA)
I loved this book and so did my other family who read it. My aunt who hardly reads, says that it is a book that she wants to keep so that she can read it over and over and over again. She loved it and so do I!
Left to Hope November 21, 2008
Sister Julie Ann Sheahan (Manitowoc, WI)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
As a Franciscan Sister of Christian Charity I look to St. Francis who found the depths of hope in Jesus Christ. Immaculalee also confirms that hope ('...only when the future is certain as a positive reality does it become possible to live the present as well'-On Christian Hope Spe Salvi, Benedict XVI) can be found in God in tragic and ordinary moments of life. Her call to share this message is life changing not only for her, but possible for all those who are also called to be transformed by reading this account.
Gripping and Inspiring! You won't be able to put it down! November 20, 2008
Emily C. Shaffer (Rwanda)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I live in Rwanda and Immaculee is one of few survivors open about sharing her experiences...thank God for her! Her story will inspire everyone who reads it while being a "thriller" keeping you on the edge of your seat as she describes the tension of hiding from certain slaughter in a bathroom for 3 months.
A must read November 19, 2008
Robert Ashmead
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
A story of faith, tragedy, courage, survival and triumph. Immaculee Ilibagiza's riveting autobiographical story of living through the Rwandan holocaust is a story of her faith growing amidst the incomprehensible and shocking experience of genocide. The story of the Hutu tribe slaughtering the Tutsi tribe is the background for her moving story, a tale of primal fear held at bay by faith that grows in Immaculee. I was deeply moved.
Heartwrenching and beautiful November 18, 2008
betty (utah)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I really loved this book. I have to admit I have not been as aware as the genocide in Rwanda as I should have been. It's hard to believe things like this are happening in this day and age. I've always struggled with the issue of absolutely evil things happening to good, decent, or innocent people. Why would God allow these things to happen? This book does not answer that question. That is a question left for the ages, but it does give me more faith that just maybe if something horrific happened to me I could have the faith to endure. This book also made me appreciate life even more fully. Thanks for sharing your story.
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