Coming Review: The Rebels’ Hour, by Lieve Joris
Translated from the Dutch by Liz Walters
Grove Press, 2008. 296p.
Our next piece will examine The Rebels’ Hour, a story depicting the life of a general from the war-torn eastern region of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. This prize-winning work was laboriously written over ten years by Belgian journalist Lieve Joris as the country was wracked by a civil war that claimed more than 4 million lives. Part fiction and part non-fiction, the book follows the growth of a simple high plains herdsmen into a military giant who surrounded himself with kidogos – the little ones.
