French language
Published 2005
Une saison de machettes
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Machete Season (French: Une saison de machettes) is a book by Jean Hatzfeld published in 2003 by Éditions du Seuil. It was published in English by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, with the translation from French by Linda Coverdale. The author reports testimonies of convicted killers of the Rwandan genocide. Hatzfeld first spoke with survivors, whose story he wrote in Le nu de la vie, and then looked at how the killers experienced the same event, partly as a result of requests from readers. A friend and Rwandan interpreter gave him the idea of meeting prisoners sentenced to long sentences who would speak more readily than people who were free, and put him in contact with a group of men he knew before the genocide. Hatzfeld met them in prison in 2001 and 2002.
Machete Season (French: Une saison de machettes) is a book by Jean Hatzfeld published in 2003 by Éditions du Seuil. It was published in English by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, with the translation from French by Linda Coverdale. The author reports testimonies of convicted killers of the Rwandan genocide. Hatzfeld first spoke with survivors, whose story he wrote in Le nu de la vie, and then looked at how the killers experienced the same event, partly as a result of requests from readers. A friend and Rwandan interpreter gave him the idea of meeting prisoners sentenced to long sentences who would speak more readily than people who were free, and put him in contact with a group of men he knew before the genocide. Hatzfeld met them in prison in 2001 and 2002.