Chronicling Rwanda with heart and detail: A review for Patrick nzabonimpa’s ‘A Thread of Silent Echoes’
Nzabonimpa writes with a journalist’s eye for detail and a poet’s emotional sensitivity. In Chantal’s Sorrow, he tracks a woman’s descent into sex work through concrete specifics: the purple miniskirt, the drunk man’s Toyota Corolla, the exact sum of Rwf 9,000 she earns. The prose is direct and accessible, occasionally lyrical. The stories show technical range. […]