Before the Rain Came
Eliane Ingabire
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A novel set in a hill town the day before everything changed.

Before the Rain Came

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By Eliane Ingabire
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Why this book should exist

I grew up in a town in Northern Rwanda, on a slope of the Virungas, where everyone always seemed to be waiting for rain.

I want to write the day before something — not the something itself. The novel is set in 24 hours, six families, one mountain.

It's the kind of historical fiction we don't get to write — slow, domestic, attentive.

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The promise

A literary novel for readers who loved A Long Way to a Small Angry Planet meets Half of a Yellow Sun.

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