Machete Season

Late in 1994, the tiny country of Rwanda erupted into the world's most protracted and violent civil war, in which 800,000 people were killed. Four years later, journalist Jean Hatzfeld journeyed to Rwanda to interview ten participants in the brutal genocide. In Machete Season , he records their stories of torture and murder of civilians from every corner of society. As Susan Sontag wrote in the preface, [the book] is a document that everyone should read . . . [because of making] the effort to understand what happened in Rwanda . . . is part of being a moral adult.