An Ordinary Man: The True Story Behind Hotel Rwanda - Softcover

Rusesabagina, Paul

Softcover

ISBN 10: 074758558X ISBN 13: 9780747585589

Publisher: Bloomsbury Paperbacks, 2007

Synopsis

The autobiography of the man whose natural courage was made famous by Oscar-nominated Don Cheadle in the film Hotel Rwanda

'Read this book. It will humble and inspire you' Mark Doyle, Daily Mail

'He recounts the ordeal with a narrative tension worthy of a superior thriller, and the passages on the build-up to the genocide are particularly compelling ... it is quite as harrowing as you'd expect' Observer

'I still don't understand why those men in the militias didn't just put a bullet in my head and execute every last person in the rooms upstairs but they didn't. I survived to tell the story, along with those I sheltered. There was nothing particularly heroic about it...'

Paul Rusesabagina was an ordinary man - a quiet manager of a luxury hotel in Rwanda. But on 6 April 1994 mobs with machetes turned into cold-blooded murderers, and commenced a slaughter of 800,000 civilians in just 100 days.

Rusesabagina, with incredible courage, saved the lives of 1,200 people. In this powerfully moving autobiography Rusesabagina tells his story and explores the complexity of Rwanda's history and the insanity that turned neighbours and friends into killers.

About this title

About the Author

Paul Rusesabagina is the former general manager of the Mille Collines Hotel in Kigali, Rwanda. In 1984, Rusesabagina became assistant general manager of the Belgian-owned Mille Collines. In November 1992, he was promoted to general manager of the nearby Diplomat Hotel. After the genocide he sought asylum in Belgium and found work driving a taxicab; he now owns a trucking company in Zambia. Tom Zoellner, 36, is an award-winning newspaper and magazine journalist. He has been a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle, The Arizona Republic and the Savannah Morning News. He lives in New York.

Edition details

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Paperbacks
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 074758558X
• ISBN 13: 9780747585589
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 288