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Left to Tell: Discovering God Amidst the Rwandan Holocaust | 
 enlarge | Author: Immaculee Ilibagiza
Publisher: Hay House
Category: Book
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Rating:  367 reviews
Sales Rank: 932
Media: Paperback
Pages: 215
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Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 0.8
ISBN: 1401908977
Dewey Decimal Number: 282.092
EAN: 9781401908973
ASIN: 1401908977
Publication Date: June 1, 2007
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Immaculee Ilibagiza grew up in a country she loved, surrounded by a family she cherished. But in 1994 her idyllic world was ripped apart as Rwanda descended into a bloody genocide. Immaculee’s family was brutally murdered during a killing spree that lasted three months and claimed the lives of nearly a million Rwandans.
Incredibly, Immaculee survived the slaughter. For 91 days, she and seven other women huddled silently together in the cramped bathroom of a local pastor while hundreds of machete-wielding killers hunted for them.
It was during those endless hours of unspeakable terror that Immaculee discovered the power of prayer, eventually shedding her fear of death and forging a profound and lasting relationship with God. She emerged from her bathroom hideout having discovered the meaning of truly unconditional love?a love so strong she was able seek out and forgive her family’s killers.
The triumphant story of this remarkable young woman’s journey through the darkness of genocide will inspire anyone whose life has been touched by fear, suffering, and loss.
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A wonderful book February 22, 2006
Kat Bakhu (Albuquerque, NM United States)
124 out of 140 found this review helpful
Left to Tell is one of those books that I feel so grateful to the author for taking the time to write, for it offers improvement to us all. It is heart-touching, edifying, and life transforming. It tangibly teaches us, through the author's very real life trials, that there is more to life than we normally see, a divine element, and that life only becomes what it was meant to be when we bind with the spiritual in the depths of our human hearts.
In a way, Left to Tell reminded me a little bit of another fabulous book, Embraced by the Light. But in Embraced by the Light, Betty Eadie had to die to experience another reality. In Left to Tell, author Imaculee had so many thousands die around her, including her dearest family members (I write this weeping), to ultimately discover the truly beautiful Divine Reality that is always with us, if we would only call to It sincerely and passionately enough.
The story in Left to Tell is a tragic story that is still being played out today. Humanity is still plagued by groups of people who feel determined to wipe out other groups of people. The spiritual disease is the same, only the names and labels change. Read Left to Tell and you will learn that the only way to go is Love, and the only thing to offer is forgiveness. You will also learn that no matter what travesty hits you, no matter your age or situation in life, through faith in God's power, you can craft the life He intended for you. Left to Tell is indeed a beautiful book that is highly recommended. And I do thank the author for her sharing.
"Shining and Beautiful in Body and Soul" Immaculee Ilibagiza: A Grace of God March 2, 2006
Barbara Rose (BornToInspire.com)
121 out of 131 found this review helpful
Immaculee's crucial book "Left to Tell" is beyond an account of the perils of genocide she survived by the Grace of God in Rwanda; Immaculee herself is a Grace of God for humanity.
Her story reaches the core of my being, as it will anyone who has a heart. But it is not just her story that is simultaneously so unfathomable yet so compelling, it is the love and forgiveness she radiates to all who were the killers of her very own family.
Both she and her precious book serve as an example from On High. The Christ-like forgiveness and compassion, the mission to help orphans left alone from the genocide of their parents, and her message of becoming one with God amidst our darkest hours, is indeed a sainted mission.
I applaud Immaculee; her courage in painstakingly detailing her accounts that ultimately created this book; her mission, and the purest love she radiates that is a profoundly bright light doing nothing less than bringing the Light of God into the hearts of humanity.
Let us join her to help the orphaned children. Visit orphansofrwanda.org for ways to help. Thank you, Immaculee, for sharing how God's Love can triumph and transform. Thank you for your profound book and for being a Grace of God.
Barbara Rose, Ph.D. author of If God Was Like Man, Know Yourself and If God Hears Me, I Want an Answer!
 One of the stars is a sympathy star... July 15, 2006
J. Brown (Santa Ana, CA USA)
32 out of 63 found this review helpful
Like the compassionate dean of urban legend who gives students a 4.0 GPA when their roommates commit suicide, I just could not leave Immaculee's harrowing story with just one star.
Unfortunately, Immaculee's simplistic faith and absolute certainty that God will take care of her are barriers to empathy. When she writes that God had a reason to keep her alive, I had to wonder if God also had a reason to let 800,000+ other Rwandans be slaughtered. If you lean any bit toward skepticism, you'll ask that question throughout the book. If I were a person of faith in the midst of this horror, I would certainly, and humbly, ask God, "Why save me, and not them?"
The question of forgiveness is handled superficially as well. Whenever Immaculee starts to feel anger -- justified anger -- at what the killers have done to her nation, she instantly pulls back to forgiveness mode. I have to believe that this was not as easy as it seems in the book. Instead of asking whether it is right to forgive great evil, Immaculee seems to forgive because she is a Christian, and that is what Christians are supposed to do. I recommend "The Sunflower" by Simon Wiesenthal for a more profound and many-facted look at forgiveness.
An event as enormous as the Rwandan genocide demands the hard questions that are beyond the reach of warm and fuzzy Christianity. Immaculee appears to be a kind and generous person, but "Left To Tell" should definitely not be your only reading on this tragedy. One book I recommend is "Machete Season" by Jean Hatzfeld.
Harrowing but hopeful March 11, 2006
Dr. Emil Shuffhausen (aka Tom Bombadil) (Central Gulf Coast)
30 out of 32 found this review helpful
This beautiful, but heartbreaking true story by Immaculee Ilibagiza brings a nation's horror right down to a personal level. So much of our world seems in an endless cycle of murder and revenge; Ilibagiza experienced unimaginable terror and personal loss, but emerged with a strong faith and a willingness to forgive.
In sharing her story, she gives hope, not only to her torn nation, but to the whole world. This is one of the finest stories of this genre since THE HIDING PLACE by Corrie Ten Boom or THE DIARY OF ANNE FRANK.
This book is both timely in its relevance and timeless in its truth. It's well-written, but not an "easy" read. It's a book to ponder, to absorb, to weep with, and ultimately to learn from. Take this journey from despair to hope.
Hell on Earth; Paradise in Her Soul September 16, 2006
Robert W. Kellemen (Crown Point, IN United States)
23 out of 24 found this review helpful
Many authors try to solve the mystery of suffering by examining it purely through a theological grid. Others attempt to understand evil only through the framework of personal experience. Immaculee Ilibagiza combines both. Her devout faith in a good God along with her hell-on-earth, paradise-in-her-soul approach makes "Left to Tell" a unique and rewarding book.
Every honest person admits that they want to discover God amidst the good and the bad of life. We all ask the questions that Ilibagiza addresses. "Where is God?" "How do I forgive evil?" Few are forced to probe such questions in the midst of such soul-numbing devastation.
Through her candid autobiography of suffering, heaven and hell meet, paradise and prison convene. Through her riveting account of their encounter, readers bump up against the reality that the infinite love of an all-wise, but often mysterious God, can provide hope to the hurting, release from rage, and faith during the darkest night of the soul.
Reviewer: Bob Kellemen, Ph.D., is the author of "Soul Physicians," "Spiritual Friends," and "Beyond the Suffering: Embracing the Legacy of African American Soul Care and Spiritual Direction."
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