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nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - He crossed a bridge to save her. Two years later, a stranger's notebook sends him back.In April 1994, Jerry Mmary carried a woman's passport across the Rusumo bridge and left her on the wrong side of it.Two years later, he is an accountant in Dar es Salaam who has learned to survive by adding columns of numbers that never quite balance. Then a package arrives from the edge of Zaire. Inside is an oilskin notebook and one line in a child's handwriting: She is alive.Eva Mukamurenzi is a schoolteacher who has spent two years reciting a register of thirty-four names to the dark, because someone has to say them. She has been hidden by strangers who ask nothing and pay a price she is only beginning to understand.To reach her, Jerry must walk into the camps along the Zaire border and trust a boy who knows every path and every lie. The notebook holds two kinds of marks: strokes and circles. Each one is a life. Before the last page, Jerry will learn what the strokes mean, who paid for every night Eva stayed hidden, and what a promise costs when you keep it.The Bridge of Hope and Sorrow is a novel about love that refuses to stop counting, about the quiet people who hold a bridge up so someone else can cross, and about the debts survivors owe each other.For readers of The Kite Runner, Half of a Yellow Sun and We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families. …
Seller Inventory # 9798230833178
- Title
- The Bridge
- Author
- Sado Faraji
- Publisher
- Sado Faraji
- Publication year
- 2024
- Condition
- Neu
- Binding
- Taschenbuch
- Language
- English
- ISBN 13
- 9798230833178
- Item weight
- 191 grams
- Dimensions
- 216x140x8 mm
**THE BRIDGE: Surviving the Shadows of Genocide**
**What if the last thing you carried out of a burning city was not a possession-but a story?**
Rwanda, 1994. As fear spreads through Kigali and neighbours begin turning against neighbours, young **Eva Uwimana** finds herself caught between a world she once knew and a violence she cannot yet comprehend.
Her father, **Pascal**, knows that lives can be erased-but so can memories. In secret, he records the voices and stories of people whose existence may soon be denied. Among those recordings is Eva's own voice: the voice of a daughter, a weaver, and a young woman still dreaming of an ordinary future.
Then the violence comes.
Forced to flee Kigali with **Jerry Mushi**, the man she loves, Eva begins a desperate journey east toward the Rusumo border. Their road becomes a terrifying struggle through checkpoints, hunger, fear, betrayal, and impossible choices. With every mile, they must decide what-and whom-they can still save.
But the story does not end at the border.
Years later, archivist **Dr. Amina Niyonzima** discovers a forgotten collection of cassette recordings, photographs, woven baskets, and a mysterious gap in the historical record. One recording is labelled simply: **"THE BRIDGE, 1994."**
What she uncovers forces Jerry to confront the question that has haunted him for decades: **What really happened to Eva-and what was left behind when she disappeared?**
*The Bridge* is a powerful historical fiction about love in the shadow of violence, the courage of ordinary people, the survival of memory, and the price of refusing to let the truth disappear.
Because sometimes survival is not the end of the journey.
**Sometimes, survival means carrying the story across the bridge.**
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About the Author
About the Author SADO FARAJI is a visionary writer and researcher from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. His work fuses history, faith, and storytelling-bridging Islamic scholarship, cultural critique, and mythic fiction. Through novels, drama series, and scholarly works, he explores the clash of tradition and modernity, betrayal and loyalty, love and survival. His writing is ritualized-crafted to echo across generations and provoke reflection on humanity's shared destiny. Selected Works - The Djinn Prince's Pact - A Romantasy of Legacy and Whispers. - The Bridge of hope and sorrow: a Poignant tale of love and resilience.- The Spirit of Resistance: The Defiance Legacy of Mkwawa. - Shadows of the Desert: The Role of Zionism in the Birth of Saudi Arabia. - The Ink Between - When the erased refused to be silent. - The Indelible Archive - a novel of memory and Resistance - Scholarly works in Islamic history and fiqh. Vision For SADO FARAJI, every book is more than a story-it is a legacy drop, a ritual of influence, and a call to heal broken worlds. Readers are invited into a journey of myth, memory, and meaning.
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