In order to get more accurate results, our search has the following Google-Type search functionality:
If you use '+' in front of a word, then that word will be present in the search results.
ex: Harry +Potter will return results with the word 'Potter'.
If you use '-' in front of a word, then that word will be absent in the search results.
ex: Harry -Potter will return results without the word 'Potter'.
If you use 'AND' between two words, then both of those words will be present in the search results.
ex: Harry AND Potter will return results with both 'Harry' and 'Potter'.
If you use 'OR' between two words, then bth of those words may or may not be present in the search results.
ex: Harry OR Potter will return results with just 'Harry', results with just 'Potter' and results with both 'Harry' and 'Potter'.
If you use 'NOT' before a word, then that word will be absent in the search results.
ex: Harry NOT Potter will return results without the word 'Potter'.
Placing '""' around words will perform a phrase search. The search results will contain those words in that order.
ex: "Harry Potter" will return any results with 'Harry Potter' in them, but not 'Potter Harry'.
Using '*' in a word will perform a wildcard search. The '*' signifies any number of characters. Searches can not start with a wildcard.
ex: Pot*er will return results with words starting with 'Pot' and ending in 'er'. In this case, 'Potter' will be a match.
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From the author of the critically acclaimed novel Our Lady of the Nile, ahaunting, delicately wrought work of non-fiction, memorialising a lost childhood,community and way of life. When Scholastique Mukasonga's family are killed in the genocide of the Tutsisby the Hutus in Rwanda, she is unable to fulfil her mother Stefania's wishto shroud her body with pagne. So instead, she now weaves her mother'sshroud with words, drawing on inherited traditions of storytelling to offer adevastating, unforgettable tribute. In beautiful, lucid prose, Mukasonga lays before us the fierce courage andstrength of her mother as she fought for her children's safety, her family's exileto the Burundi border and her community's efforts to maintain ritual andtradition. Vivid, evocative and deeply moving, this is a remarkable work of artand act of love. 'A powerful work of witness and memorial, a loving act of reconstruction,and an unflinching reckoning.' - Zadie Smith