The Bridge - Softcover

Faraji, Sado

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ISBN 13: 9798230833178

Publisher: Sado Faraji, 2024

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**THE BRIDGE: Surviving the Shadows of Genocide**

**What if the last thing you carried out of a burning city was not a possession-but a story?**

Rwanda, 1994. As fear spreads through Kigali and neighbours begin turning against neighbours, young **Eva Uwimana** finds herself caught between a world she once knew and a violence she cannot yet comprehend.

Her father, **Pascal**, knows that lives can be erased-but so can memories. In secret, he records the voices and stories of people whose existence may soon be denied. Among those recordings is Eva's own voice: the voice of a daughter, a weaver, and a young woman still dreaming of an ordinary future.

Then the violence comes.

Forced to flee Kigali with **Jerry Mushi**, the man she loves, Eva begins a desperate journey east toward the Rusumo border. Their road becomes a terrifying struggle through checkpoints, hunger, fear, betrayal, and impossible choices. With every mile, they must decide what-and whom-they can still save.

But the story does not end at the border.

Years later, archivist **Dr. Amina Niyonzima** discovers a forgotten collection of cassette recordings, photographs, woven baskets, and a mysterious gap in the historical record. One recording is labelled simply: **"THE BRIDGE, 1994."**

What she uncovers forces Jerry to confront the question that has haunted him for decades: **What really happened to Eva-and what was left behind when she disappeared?**

*The Bridge* is a powerful historical fiction about love in the shadow of violence, the courage of ordinary people, the survival of memory, and the price of refusing to let the truth disappear.

Because sometimes survival is not the end of the journey.

**Sometimes, survival means carrying the story across the bridge.**

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About the Author

About the Author SADO FARAJI is a visionary writer and researcher from Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. His work fuses history, faith, and storytelling-bridging Islamic scholarship, cultural critique, and mythic fiction. Through novels, drama series, and scholarly works, he explores the clash of tradition and modernity, betrayal and loyalty, love and survival. His writing is ritualized-crafted to echo across generations and provoke reflection on humanity's shared destiny. Selected Works - The Djinn Prince's Pact - A Romantasy of Legacy and Whispers. - The Bridge of hope and sorrow: a Poignant tale of love and resilience.- The Spirit of Resistance: The Defiance Legacy of Mkwawa. - Shadows of the Desert: The Role of Zionism in the Birth of Saudi Arabia. - The Ink Between - When the erased refused to be silent. - The Indelible Archive - a novel of memory and Resistance - Scholarly works in Islamic history and fiqh. Vision For SADO FARAJI, every book is more than a story-it is a legacy drop, a ritual of influence, and a call to heal broken worlds. Readers are invited into a journey of myth, memory, and meaning.

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