In the middle of Kigali is a swimming pool at the Htel des Mille-Collines. It is a magnet for a privileged group of residents,a place where middle-class Rwandans drink with melancholy expatriates and prostitutes. But beyond the walls of the hotel exists a chaotic society in which millions live in poverty,surrounded by violence and disease. In this troubled world,Valcourt,a Canadian journalist,falls for Gentille,a beautiful Hutu waitress.A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali is a poignant love story,a stirring hymn to humanity and a modern classic of spellbinding power,confronting the nightmare that ravaged Rwanda in the 1990s.
Publisher: Canongate BooksISBN: 9781782118886Number of pages: 288Weight: 213 gDimensions: 198 x 129 x 16 mmEdition: Main - Canons Reissue
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Exceptional...you must read itA Heart of Darkness for todayIntense and gut-wrenching,poetic and disquietingIlluminating and horrifying,compassionate and scathingAstounding...It's no surprise that this book has won so many prizesCourtemanche's time in Rwanda,where he worked as a journalist,may have produced the first great novel of the catastrophe that befell that countryHaunting,graceful...with a journalist's unblinking eye and an appreciation of bitter ironyAn intense affair,urgent and nerve-wrackingly ominous,with a surprisingly boisterous humourCourtemanche's work has an enormous quality...Read this bookVery powerful...I urge you to read it
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