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If you want to learn facts and figures about the Rwandan genocide, read the encyclopedia.

If you want to learn what it is like to see hundreds of thousands of your own people slaughtered like animals in only a few short days, and to survive yourself only by a seeming accident of chance; if you want to learn how bewildering and worthless life can seem to be; if you want to grasp the struggle to believe in God and to forgive, then listen to this story.

It is unfathomable what human beings will do to one another.  The depths of hatred and of brutality make life seem not worth living.  How could one experience genocide and have faith in God and hope that life is worth living?

Eric Irivuzumugabe lived through the Rwandan genocide and came to believe in God.  Through Christ he gained a hope for himself and for his people as well.  This book is the story of his struggle to survive physically, and of his spiritual birth.  The book ends with him on a mission to reach out to his fellow Rwandans, particularly the orphans of the genocide.

This book is read very well by the narrator in a soft and gentle style.

This review was written for christianaudio.com, where you can purchase this book.