A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali: Penguin Modern Classics Edition by Courtemanche, Gil

A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali: Penguin Modern Classics Edition (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781039008847)

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A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali: Penguin Modern Classics Edition by Courtemanche, Gil

A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali: Penguin Modern Classics Edition

$18.00
A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali: Penguin Modern Classics Edition by Courtemanche, Gil

A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali: Penguin Modern Classics Edition

$18.00
Format: Paperback
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The swimming pool of the Mille-Collines hotel is a magnet for a discrete group of Kigali residents: aid workers, Rwandan bourgeoisie, expatriates and prostitutes. Among these patrons is the hotel waitress Gentille, a beautiful Hutu often mistaken for a Tutsi, who has long been admired by Bernard Valcourt, a foreign journalist. As the two slide into a love affair and prepare for their wedding, we see the world around them coming apart.

This landmark novel confronts the nightmare that ravaged Rwanda in April 1994, when the Hutu-led government orchestrated genocide against the Tutsi people. A denunciation of poverty, ignorance, global apathy and media blindness, A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali has at its heart a shattering love story, told with profound compassion and consummate control.

Author: Gil Courtemanche
ISBN-10: 1039008844
ISBN-13: 9781039008847
Publisher: Knopf Canadian Publishing
Language: English
Published: 07/18/2023
Pages: 272
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.47lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.19w x 0.53d
By Gil Courtemanche
By Gil Courtemanche
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GIL COURTEMANCHE was a journalist specializing in international politics, and the author of several non-fiction works and novels. He travelled to Rwanda four times and produced an award-winning TV documentary, The Gospel of AIDS. It was ten years after his first trip to Rwanda that he wrote Un dimanche à la piscine a Kigali, which spent more than a year on Quebec bestseller lists and won the French version of Canada Reads. In 2006, Un dimanche à la piscine a Kigali was released as a feature film. He died in 2011.

PATRICIA CLAXTON is one of Canada's foremost translators. Two-time winner of the Governor General's Award for Translation, she has worked with Gabrielle Roy, Nicole Brossard and Pierre Elliott Trudeau, among others.

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