Clea's Memoir

From the US publisher, Random House
In 1994, Rwanda was the scene of the first acts since World War II to be legally defined as genocide. Two years later, Clea Koff, a 23-year old forensic anthropologist, left the safe confines of a lab in Berkeley, California, to serve as one of sixteen scientists chosen by the United Nations to unearth the physical evidence of the Rwandan genocide. Over the next four years, Koff's grueling investigations took her across geography synonymous with some of the worst crimes of the twentieth century.

Published in 2004, The Bone Woman is Koff's unflinching, riveting account of her seven UN missions to Bosnia, Croatia, Kosovo, and Rwanda, as she shares what she saw, how it affected her, who was prosecuted based on evidence she found, and what she learned about the world. Yet even as she recounts the hellish nature of her work and the heartbreak of the survivors, she imbues her story with purpose, humanity, and a sense of justice. A tale of science in service of human rights, The Bone Woman is, even more profoundly, a story of hope and enduring moral principles.

INTERNATIONAL AWARDS, HONORS, AND COMMENDATIONS

Prix Livre et Droits de L'Homme (Human Rights Book Prize) 2005
De la Ville de Nancy, France, presented by Jorge Semprun

Book of the Year, 2004
Jenny Crwys-Williams, Radio 702, South Africa

A Best of 2004
Maureen Corrigan, National Public Radio

A Top 20 Science Book of 2004
  Discover Magazine

A Best of 2004
Booktrust

An International Book of the Year 2004
  Clive James in The Times Literary Supplement, 3 December

A Book of the Year, 2004
Andrea Levy in The Guardian

Best Original Subject, Non-fiction, 2004
Black Issues Book Review

Editor's Pick
Foreign Policy Association

Non-fiction Book of the Year, 2004
  Jenny Crwys-Williams, Radio 702, South Africa

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