The Bone Woman by Clea Koff

The Bone Woman by Clea Koff

In 1994, Rwanda was the scene of the first acts since World War I to be legally defined as genocide. Two years later, Clea Koff, a twenty-three-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.

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.

Clea Koff grew up in England, Kenya, Tanzania, Somalia, and the United States, the daughter of a Tanzanian mother and an American father, both documentary filmmakers interested in human rights concerns. Her current residences are in Los Angeles and Melbourne, Australia.

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ISBN 13	9780812968859
ISBN 10	0812968859
Title	The Bone Woman
Author	Clea Koff
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2005-02-08
Number of pages	304
Prizes	Winner of New York Public Library Books for the Teen Age 2006
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