Left to Tell is eye opening and soul searching

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	• Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust Immaculee Ilibagiza Hay House, 2007 - 215 pages average customer review:based on 367 reviews view larger image
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Left to tell...My Questions

The Left to Tell book has done much to raise awareness of the Rwandan genocide, and of course I am sincerely happy she survived. There are some honest issues of integrity with the story, however. Immaculee, like every other Rwandan, learned English in high school, rather than by the gift of tongues. Also from my talks with Rwandans living in the United States, there are questions regarding how a bathroom like that would have been available in her village. Normally, they use pit latrines. There are some other issues that make the book confusing to me, because I know so many from the country. The Missionaries of Charity also do not allow pictures to be taken at their orphanages. It's easy to get a crowd of kids around you and take a picture in Rwanda...I am glad she survived and sorry for her plight, but I question the packaging of the book.

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Left to Tell is eye opening and soul searching

It would have been easy for the author to allow her personal experiences during the Rwandan holocaust to leave her a bitter, angry person bent on revenge. Instead, the author chooses to use the experiences to strengthen her faith and learn to forgive, and above all else the book teaches a tremendous lesson about those attributes. My one warning is that there are some graphic details of violence included. I felt they were absolutely necessary for the reader to understand just how horrific the Rwandan holocaust was, and felt they were never portrayed in a gratuitous fashion. I readily recommend this book for all mature readers.

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A Must Read!!

Left to Tell is an amazing story of a woman's courage and spirituality. Not only did it put all the ordinary troubles of my life right back in perspective, it immediately jolted me to begin re-dedicating myself to my spriritual practice. I dare you to read this book then try to complain about anything in your life!

Inspired

This book is a beautifully written, honest, and inspiring. Imaculee experiences absolute evil and through it plunges into the depths of contemplative prayer discovering God who is love. Her anger is transformed into forgiveness, her expereince of knowing God is transformed into this book. She speaks the language of the mystics and lives the life of a saint.

This book was recommended to me by Catholic Relief Services and I highly recommend it to you.

For more information on Immaculee and Rwanda where I recently visited in early June check out the blog:

http://fathermichael.wordpress.com/2008/04/25/left-to-tell-one-womans-story-of-surviving-the-rwandan-holocaust/

-Fr. Michael Denk (Diocese of Cleveland)

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Gripping...and it was real!

Left to Tell is a haunting story that reminds us of the evil that racial predjudice perpetuates. Locked in a tiny bathroom, hidden away for months, these women were survivors, and lived to tell the story. As readers, we are better for knowing. Imaculee's sustinence was her faith in God. This isn't a religious book, though for those of us who are religious, it's a reminder of the power of God to sustain us through the hard times. I cannot imagine living through what these women, and the many others who have lived through the horrors of civil wars in Africa and other places where unexpected coupes turn their worlds upside down in a second. Yet they survive, left to tell. A must read.

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