A powerful and shocking story of what evil can do in the hearts of people

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	• Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst The Rwandan Holocaust Immaculee Ilibagiza Hay House, 2006 average customer review:based on 442 reviews view larger image
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Empowering

I was absolutely astonished at how deep Immaculee's story touched my heart. I felt completely empowered by her strength and determination. I felt as if I was there with her and I couldn't put the book down. I am blessed to have been introduced to this book and grateful to have learned of this historical event that I had no prior knowledge of. I was originally assigned this book for a class that I am taking and though I read it only once to complete my assignment, I plan to read it again and again. Particularly to reinforce the empowerment I felt while reading her story. Immaculee - Thank you for sharing your experience!!

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Moving and Inspiring

Like many people who have lived a privileged life (only in the sense that mine has been Caucasian-ordinary and relatively unscathed), I usually stay away from books or films that depict the raw evil that dwells within the human psyche. I find them too painful, too shameful, too assaulting to my empathic sensitivity. Still, I had seen the author of Left to Tell, Immaculee Ilibagiza, on Wayne Dyer's PBS fundraiser. Her story and her presence moved me then, and when her book practically fell in my lap unbidden, I knew I would read it.

I already knew that it would be an epic story of the worst--and greatest--of human qualities. It's one of those books that you stay up until the early hours of the morning reading, because you simply cannot put it down. It's not the horror sightseeing that gripped me, for the author has treated that aspect of this particular human atrocity with a light hand. It's her awakening to an unwavering belief in a higher power--for her that power is God--under the most dire of circumstances. It's the miracle of her life now, of her spirit, of her unshakable belief in a life of meaning and unconditional love, even as she almost starved to death hiding from the slaughter in a tiny bathroom with seven other women for 91 days. It's the admiration that anyone could endure such hardship, hatred, and horror, and emerge with her heart not only in tact, but wide open.

The blood of a million brutally slaughtered Tutsis has stained my heart as well as the human condition. But if ever there was a testimonial to human resilience, to human compassion, and to the power of prayer--which is the same as positive thinking, the author writes--Left to Tell is it!

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Gripping and Intense

What a tragic event that took place in Rwanda...I wasn't even aware of the atrocities there...and it wasn't that long ago.

Again the caste system was what caused all the trouble...people thinking they are better than someone else and thinking they must kill them.

My favorite line from the book is: I envision, I dream, I pray, and I have what I want.

It is a wonderful book to realize that prayer does work.

It is depressing, but the uplifting religious aspect keeps you reading.

A powerful and shocking story of what evil can do in the hearts of people

I was in college during the Rwandan genocide in 1994. It's beyond my comprehension to think about the bloodshed that was happening on the other side of the world. Immaculée Ilibagiza tells the true story of her life growing up in Rwanda with her loving family. She learned early on that she was in a different tribe than the majority of her neighbors, but never did she consider that they might turn on her and her family. That her friends might someday pick up machetes and guns and murder anyone from her tribe. But that's exactly what happened.

Immaculée's father and brothers encourages her to hide out at a pastor's house nearby. He hid her and seven other women in a tiny half bathroom for three months. She could hear the killers roaming the streets on the other side of the wall. She prayed that God would protect her family and the women in the bathroom. But when she finally got out, she was one of the few survivors left to tell what had happened.

This is a powerful and shocking story of what evil can do in the hearts of people. The killers were murdering innocents in the streets, women, children, and infants alike. I was amazed at Immaculée's story of how she grew close to God in the three months she hid in the bathroom, but I was even more amazed at how she learned to forgive those who killed her family and friends. This is hard to read and shares some graphic details of how Immaculée's loved ones were killed. I strongly recommend it to anyone who harbors hatred against another. To see what this young woman went through and that she rose above the hatred and evil that she had the opportunity to embrace in revenge was inspiring. I am so proud of her.

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