{"product_id":"9781784746063","title":"PRE-ORDER NOW Jacaranda by Sarah Ardizzone","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003e PRE-ORDER NOW - Published: 06\/08\/2026 \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA young man journeys from Paris to Rwanda to discover the truth about his mother's past and the country of her birth, from bestselling and prize-winning Rwandan-French novelist and hip-hop artist Ga?l Faye`A writer of great promise and grace' Chigozie ObiomaMilan - the twelve-year-old son of a French father and a Rwandan mother - blames flunking his exams on the emotional trauma of the genocide in his mother's homeland. It's a convenient excuse: growing up outside Paris in the 1990s, the violence is an abstraction that only reaches him through distant television broadcasts.   That is, until Milan's mother introduces him to Claude, a young cousin with a bandaged head who has come to France seeking medical treatment. Thrilled to have a new playmate, Milan treats Claude as a brother until one day, he is sent back to Rwanda as quickly as he came.   Four years later, Milan travels for the first time to Rwanda, encountering a beguiling country and family members he never knew existed, and reuniting with Claude. But the trip raises more questions for Milan than it answers - about his family's history, the war and its aftershocks.   Over the course of many years, Milan will return to Rwanda again and again, compelled to confront the past and imagine a new kind of future. Jacaranda is a rich and deeply felt portrait of a man seeking to understand his family and his nation as it heals from the unthinkable.   `Ga?l Faye's talent is breathtaking' Imbolo Mbue \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardback","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56369153474933,"sku":"9781784746063","price":18.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781784746063.jpg?v=1763552282","url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/products\/9781784746063","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}