{"product_id":"a-book-of-my-own","title":"A Book of My Own","description":"\u003cp\u003e'For those who, despite everything, have decided to live, there will always be a home.' – Scholastique Mukasonga.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA Book of My Own is a work on the experience of exile and migration, memory and selfhood, from legendary French-Rwandan storyteller Scholastique Mukasonga.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFor most of her life, Mukasonga was not a writer but a UNESCO social worker. She began writing only in 1994 out of what she called an 'urgency to remember' – her town, her mother, and her thirty-seven family members, who were murdered during the genocide of that year. She recorded everything in a little blue notebook which, in 2006, became an autobiography, Cockroaches.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMukasonga has since continued to write with similar intent – to 'rebuild a lost world from memory and preserve the dignity of humanity.' In doing so, she has become not only a perennial favourite for the Nobel Prize, but also one of the great humanitarians of our time.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Perimeter Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46473188081887,"sku":"9798987123119","price":45.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0685\/2185\/3151\/files\/9798987123119.jpg?v=1744075688","url":"https:\/\/lamplightbooks.pro\/products\/a-book-of-my-own","provider":"Lamplight Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}