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A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali
ABOUT
THE BOOK
The swimming pool of the Mille-Collines hotel is a magnet for an eclectic group of Kigali residents: aid workers, Rwandan bourgeoisie, expatriates and prostitutes. Among them is the hotel waitress Gentille, a beautiful Hutu often mistaken for a Tutsi, who has long been admired by Bernard Valcourt, a Canadian journalist. As the two slide into a love affair, civil unrest in Rwanda makes insidious progress, engulfing the people around the pool in the chaos of civil war.
This novel confronts the nightmare that ravaged Rwanda in April 1994, when the Hutu-led government orchestrated genocide against the Tutsi people.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION
Date published
22/11/2024
Country
Canada
Original Language
French
Publisher
Knopf Canada,
Alfred A. Knopf