David Diop's, Murambi, The Book of Bones

The novel's protagonist is a writer named Cornelius whose journey is to appreciate the narrative arc of the Genocide, but the process takes him into seriously challenging territory, emotionally speaking, because he learns that his own father played a major role in the local genocide in Murambi, his own hometown. His father's violence inspired the killing there that eventually claimed the life of Cornelius's own mother. The portrait is of betrayal, because Cornelius's father turned violent against the Tutsi half of his own family.