by Giles Foden (Introduction), Gil Courtemanche (Author), Giles Foden (Introduction), Gil Courtemanche (Author), Patricia Claxton (Translator)
In the middle of Kigali is a swimming pool at the Hotel 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.
Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
Edition: Main - Canons Reissue
Publisher: Canongate Canons
Published: 03 May 2018
ISBN 10: 1782118888
ISBN 13: 9781782118886