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The Bone Woman


"Chilling but mesmerizing...Koff's  account is neither histrionic nor preachy; it's clear-eyed, hard-headed,  and straightforward.... This book works so well, is so vivid and so  moving, because Koff surrounds the dead bodies with living stories."        - BookPage


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Cover of The Bone Woman by Clea Koff published by Random House showing a small bone and antique key

Awards, Honors and Commendations

Prix Livre et Droits de L'Homme (Human Rights Book Prize) 2005

Prix Livre et Droits de L'Homme (Human Rights Book Prize) 2005

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

Prix Livre et Droits de L'Homme (Human Rights Book Prize) 2005

Prix Livre et Droits de L'Homme (Human Rights Book Prize) 2005

 Jenny Crwys-Williams, Radio 702, South Africa

A Best of 2004

Prix Livre et Droits de L'Homme (Human Rights Book Prize) 2005

A Top 20 Science Book of 2004

Maureen Corrigan, National Public Radio

A Top 20 Science Book of 2004

An International Book of the Year 2004

A Top 20 Science Book of 2004

Discover Magazine

A Best of 2004

An International Book of the Year 2004

An International Book of the Year 2004

Booktrust

An International Book of the Year 2004

An International Book of the Year 2004

An International Book of the Year 2004

 Clive James in The Times Literary Supplement, 3 December

A Book of the Year, 2004

Best Original Subject, Non-fiction, 2004

Best Original Subject, Non-fiction, 2004

Andrea Levy in The Guardian

Best Original Subject, Non-fiction, 2004

Best Original Subject, Non-fiction, 2004

Best Original Subject, Non-fiction, 2004

 Black Issues Book Review

Editor's Pick

Best Original Subject, Non-fiction, 2004

Non-fiction Book of the Year, 2004

Foreign Policy Association

Non-fiction Book of the Year, 2004

Non-fiction Book of the Year, 2004

Non-fiction Book of the Year, 2004

 Jenny Crwys-Williams, Radio 702, South Africa

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Audiobook published in 2023 by Dreamscape Media

Audiobook published in 2023 by Dreamscape Media

Audiobook published in 2023 by Dreamscape Media

Audiobook published in 2023 by Dreamscape Media

Audiobook published in 2023 by Dreamscape Media

Audiobook published in 2023 by Dreamscape Media

    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.


    The Bone Woman - now published in ten languages and more than 14 countries - French translation republished by Éditions Héloïse d'Ormesson in 2023

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