An Ordinary Man, (Paperback)

from nmele

This short memoir by a man who saved over a thousand people from genocide in Rwanda in 1994 is cautionary,moving, witty and wise. Quite a window into the personality of Paul Rusesabagina, whose story was dramatized several years ago in the film "Hotel Rwanda."

from TiffanyAK

An incredible Autobiography written by the man who inspired the movie 'Hotel Rwanda'. Often sad, incredibly tragic, but also full of hope that even in the darkest of times, there are people that hold on to the basic human decency that tells them to protect their fellow human beings, not harm them...

from SqueakyChu

As the Rwandan government, which was in the hands of the Hutu tribe, encouraged its Hutu citizens to systematically murder anyone of the Tutsi tribe or their helpers, Paul Rusesabagina, himself the son of a Tutsi mother and Hutu father, offered shelter from this terror to over 1,000 refugees. Mr....

from LisaMaria_C

This is the memoir of Paul Ruseabagina, a hotel manager in Rwanda during the 1994 genocide. With "a cooler of beer, a leather binder, and a hidden phone" he saved 1,268 people. This is the story of how he used those tools to schmooze and persuade and bribe and conjole to keep the killers from mur...

from msjoanna

First, listening to this book on audio was extremely powerful. So much so that I actually had to stop the CD, stop the car, then turn it back on to listen to because it was so moving and was making it hard for me to concentrate on driving. The author manages to use direct language to tell his ama...