"It may be that this is the ultimate memoir of the post-Cold War decade ...
a hugely important book." - The Telegraph, UK
Photo: Lake Kivu, Rwanda © 1996 Clea Koff
"It may be that this is the ultimate memoir of the post-Cold War decade ...
a hugely important book." - The Telegraph, UK
Photo: Lake Kivu, Rwanda © 1996 Clea Koff
In the Spring of 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 twenty-three-year-old forensic anthropologist analyzing prehistoric skeletons in California, was one of sixteen scientists chosen by the United Nations International Criminal Tribunal to go to Rwanda to unearth physical evidence of war crimes and crimes against humanity.
The Bone Woman is Koff's riveting, intimate account of that mission and six subsequent missions she undertook to Bosnia, Croatia, and Kosovo on behalf of the UN. It is, ultimately, a story filled with hope, humanity, and justice.
Published in 2004 by Random House in the United States, Hodder Headline in Australia, Atlantic in the United Kingdom, Knopf in Canada, and in translation by 10 international publishers in nine languages between 2004 and 2007.
In 2023, the audiobook of The Bone Woman was published in the United States by Dreamscape Media and Éditions Héloïse d'Ormesson re-published La Mémoire des os.
