We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed with Our Families: Stories from Rwanda by Philip Gourevitch

There is this rare kind of books which explain things so well that after reading them you feel that this is all you need to know, everything else will seem like a footnote or an afterword. This is not to say that those other books won’t be of any value. Footnotes and afterwords are often very informative after all, and provide an even wider perspective. But they will simply be forever overshadowed by that one special book. If you want to know more about the Rwandan Genocide and have it explained clearly and comprehensively, but you don’t want to or don’t have time to read more than one book, then you’ll be pleased to know that this one book exists. I finished reading it a few weeks ago but the images and emotions that it evoked in me don’t seem to fade away.