A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali

von Gil Courtemanche

272 Seiten, Taschenbuch

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

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.

• Reihe: Knopf Canada
• ISBN: 9781039008847
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 18.07.2023
• Größe: 203 x 132 mm
• Verlag: Random House