Petit Pays, Paperback Book, By: Gael Faye

In 1992, ten-year-old Gabriel lives in Burundi with his French father, an entrepreneur, his Rwandan mother and his little sister, Ana, in a comfortable expatriate neighborhood. Gabriel spends most of his time with his buddies, a merry band busy doing the four hundred hits. A peaceful daily life, a sweet childhood that will fall apart at the same time as this "small country" of Africa brutally battered by history. Gabriel sees with concern his parents separate, then the civil war looms, followed by the Rwandan tragedy. The neighborhood is upset. In successive waves, violence invades it, permeates it, and everything changes