Benaron, Naomi,

Running the rift : a novel / Naomi Benaron. - 1st ed, - Chapel Hill, NC : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2012. - 384 p. ; 21 cm.

Includes bibliographical references

Rwandan runner Jean Patrick Nkuba dreams of winning an Olympic gold medal and uniting his ethnically divided country, only to be driven from everyone he loves when the violence starts, after which he must find a way back to a better life.

Winner, Bellwether Prize for Fiction, 2010.

ISBN: 9781616201944

LCCN: 2011026349

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Runners (Sports)
Tutsi (African people)

Dewey Class. No.: 813/.6