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French-Rwandan Gael Faye is an author, composer and hip hop artist. He was born in 1982 in Burundi, and has a Rwandan mother and French father. In 1995, after the outbreak of the civil war and the Rwandan genocide, the family moved to France. Gael studied finance and worked in London for two years for an investment fund, then he left London to embark on a career of writing and music. He is as influenced by Creole literature as he is by hip hop culture, and released an album in 2010 with the group Milk Coffee & Sugar. In 2013, his first solo album, Pili Pili sur un Croissant au Beurre, appeared. It was recorded between Bujumbura and Paris, and is filled with a plethora of musical influences: rap laced with soul and jazz, semba, Congolese rumba... In 2018 he received the prestigious Victoires de la Musique Award. Small Country is his first novel. It was a huge bestseller in France, winning the Prix Goncourt des Lyceens 2016, and is being published in thirty territories worldwide.
"An evocative portrait of what it means to lose one's freedom and innocence. Gael Faye's literary powers lie in his unbridled honesty and his effortless prose. He is a writer of great promise and grace" -- Chigozie Obioma, author of The Fishermen "Unforgettable... Gael Faye's talent is breathtaking; no country that can give the world a writer like him should ever be called small" -- Imbolo Mbue, author of Behold the Dreamers "This beautiful coming-of-age novel conveys a heart-rending desire for peace and harmony. It sets forth a vision of the world that is poetic rather than political, where horror is displaced by wonder." * Le Figaro * "A magnificent book... a master-stroke of a first novel" * Le Parisien * "Precise and potent...deeply affecting... The juxtaposition of everyday growing pains and the fallout from atrocities is heightened by Faye's lovely prose, which builds a heartrending portrait of the end of childhood" * Publishers Weekly * "Gael Faye's words are a mix of such precision, gentleness and gravitas that finishing this first novel feels like coming out of a heartrending embrace." * Le Point * "A very personal and intimate novel about an African childhood cut through by socio-political turbulence... Gael Faye has evoked the darkest pages of contemporary Africa without tipping into pathos" -- Alain Mabanckou, author of Broken Glass "A literary revelation, subtle and powerful" * Elle * "Gael Faye is a revelation. Small Country is a luminous and poignant novel about childhood, war, exile and identity... this is literature at its most powerful" * Le Parisien Magazine * "Triumphant" * le Journal du Dimanche * "Writing that is beautiful, sad and funny. A poetic `cry to the world' about the existence of Gabriel, his family, his friends and everyone else. Before they became "a bunch of exiles, refugees, immigrants and migrants"" * Charlie Hebdo * "a melancholic tale of a paradise lost" * Grazia * "In the summer months, there are two categories of books: those we take on holiday and leave behind in the sand, and those that make their mark on us for life. Small Country by Gael Faye is firmly part of the latter category." * Le Matin Dimanche * "A literary phenomenon" -- Mehdi Ba * Jeune Afrique * "Small Country is a big novel" * Canard Enchaine *
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