An Ordinary Man : An Autobiography
by Paul Rusesabagina, Tom Zoellner
List Price:
Our Price: $5.99
You Save: $17.96 (75%)
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Buy Used: from $4.98 (click here)
Category: Book
See more book details and other editions
Book Summary Information
Author: Paul Rusesabagina, Tom ZoellnerEdition: Hardcover
Format: Bargain Price
Published: 2006-04-06
ISBN: N/A
Number of pages: 224
Publisher: Amazon Remainders Account
Book Reviews of An Ordinary Man : An Autobiography
Book Review: Moving and Humbling
Summary: 5 Stars
I saw Hotel Rwanda last year and thought it was an amazing film, it was no surprise that Don Cheadle and Sophie Okenado both received Oscar nominations or that Paul Rusesabagina was referred to as an African Oscar Schindler.
This book is a welcome addition to the film as it gives Paul's back story. His childhood outside Kigali and early experience of ethnic hatred in the 50's when his father hid Tutsi refugees in their village. As a young man he trained to be a clergyman, but abandoned that when he fell in love later becoming a hotel manager. The story of the siege at the Mille Collines hotel is powerfully told with the tension and heart in mouth feeling I experienced while watching the film.
The benefit of the book over the film comes with bringing Paul's story up to date. The telling of his life now in Belgium with his own children and his nieces whose parents were murdered in the genocide. Rusesabagina himself is never boastful when recounting his actions considering them that of any decent person or an Ordinary Man.
In the same way as the Schindler story and that of Primo Levi - An Ordinary Man is a book that should be read by everyone as a reminder of the worst and best that humanity is capable of.
Book Subjects
- Arts & Photography
- Audiobooks on Cassette
- Audiobooks on CD
- Biographies & Memoirs
- Business & Investing
- Children's Books
- Comics & Graphic Novels
- Computers & Internet
- Cooking, Food & Wine
- e-Books
- Engineering
- Entertainment
- Gay & Lesbian
- Health, Mind & Body
- History
- Home & Garden
- Horror
- Law
- Literature & Fiction
- Medicine
- Mystery & Thrillers
- Nonfiction
- Outdoors & Nature
- Parenting & Families
- Professional & Technical
- Reference
- Religion & Spirituality
- Romance
- Science
- Science Fiction & Fantasy
- Sports
- Teens
- Travel
Most talked about in Some Great Reads
The Devil's Dictionaryby Ambrose Bierce
Filiquarian; Published: 2007-11-07; Paperback; Book
Best price: $6.87
Price in other shops:
Avalon Highby Meg Cabot
HarperTeen; Published: 2007-07-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $3.68
Price in other shops:
An Ordinary Man : An Autobiographyby Paul Rusesabagina, Tom Zoellner
Amazon Remainders Account; Published: 2006-04-06; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $6.14
Price in other shops:
Goddess of the Green Roomby Jean Plaidy
Fawcett; Published: 1991-12-22; Mass Market Paperback; Book
Best price: $38.26
The Ladies of Missalonghi (Harper Short Novel Series)by Colleen McCullough
Horizon Book Promotions; Published: 1989-11; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $4.99
Big Troubleby Barry Dave
G. P. Putman's Sons; Published: 1999; Hardcover; Book
Rimwalkersby Vicki Grove
Putnam Juvenile; Published: 1996-07-16; Paperback; Book
Best price: $1.10
Price in other shops:
Nancy and Plumby Betty MacDonald
Joan Keil Enterprises; Published: 1997-10; Paperback; Book
Best price: $102.25
Louisa May Alcott: Little Women, Little Men, Jo's Boys (Library of America)by Louisa May Alcott
Library of America; Published: 2005-02-17; Hardcover; Book
Best price: $21.89
Price in other shops:
The Shelters of Stone (Earth's Children (Paperback))by JEAN M. AUEL
Published: 2004-04-27; Paperback; Book
Best price: $11.10
Price in other shops:
Similar books summaries and other product reviews
A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide (P.S.)by Samantha Power
Harper Perennial; Published: 2007-09-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $8.50
Price in other shops:
The Tortilla Curtainby T. Coraghessan Boyle
Penguin Books; Published: 1996-09-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $5.98
Price in other shops:
Three Cups of Tea: One Man's Mission to Promote Peace . . . One School at a Timeby Greg Mortenson, David Oliver Relin
Penguin (Non-Classics); Published: 2007-01-30; Paperback; Book
Best price: $7.73
Price in other shops:
Night (Oprah's Book Club)by Elie Wiesel
Hill and Wang; Published: 2006-01-16; Paperback; Book
Best price: $3.96
Price in other shops:
Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwandaby Rom?o Dallaire, Samantha Power
Da Capo Press; Published: 2004-12-20; Paperback; Book
Best price: $2.98
Price in other shops:
Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaustby Immaculee Ilibagiza
Hay House; Published: 2007-06-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $8.04
Price in other shops:
Hotel RwandaCHEADLE,DON; Release date: 2005-04-12; DVD
Best price: $3.85
Price in other shops:
A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldierby Ishmael Beah
Farrar, Straus and Giroux; Published: 2008-08-05; Paperback; Book
Best price: $5.46
Price in other shops:
Machete Season: The Killers in Rwanda Speakby Jean Hatzfeld
Picador; Published: 2006-04-18; Paperback; Book
Best price: $8.46
Price in other shops:
We Wish to Inform You That Tomorrow We Will be Killed With Our Families: Stories from Rwandaby Philip Gourevitch
Picador; Published: 1999-09-01; Paperback; Book
Best price: $3.34
Price in other shops: