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Baking cakes in Kigali a novel

"Baking Cakes in Kigali" is a novel about the real meaning of reconciliation - about how, in the aftermath of tragedy, life goes on and people still manage to find reasons to celebrate.

Main Author: Parkin, Gaile.
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: New York : Delacorte Press, c2009.
Edition: 1st ed.
Subjects:
Women > Africa > Fiction.
Women cooks > Fiction.
Bakers > Fiction.
Bakeries > Fiction.
Family life > Rwanda > Kigali > Fiction.
Kigali (Rwanda) > Fiction.
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Summary: "Baking Cakes in Kigali" is a novel about the real meaning of reconciliation - about how, in the aftermath of tragedy, life goes on and people still manage to find reasons to celebrate.
Physical Description: 308 p. ; 22 cm.
ISBN: 9780385343435 (hardcover)
0385343434 (hardcover)
Author Notes: Gaile Parkin was born and raised in Zambia and studied at universities in South Africa and England. She has lived in many different parts of Africa, including Rwanda, where Baking Cakes in Kigali is set. She spent two years in Rwanda as a VSO volunteer at the new university doing a wide range of work: teaching, mentoring, writing learning materials, working with the campus clinic to counsel students with HIV/AIDS, and doing gender advocacy and empowerment work. Evenings and weekends, she counselled women and girls who were survivors. Many of the stories told by the characters in Baking Cakes for Kigali are based on or inspired by stories Parkin was told herself. She is currently a freelance consultant in the fields of education, gender, and HIV/AIDS.

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