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A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali

A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali

by Giles Foden (Introduction), Gil Courtemanche (Author), Giles Foden (Introduction), Gil Courtemanche (Author), Patricia Claxton (Translator)

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    Paperback 2004

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    Hardcover 2003

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Synopsis

The swimming pool of the Mille-Collines hotel is a magnet for a privileged group of Kigali residents: aid-workers, Rwandan bourgeoisie, soldiers, prostitutes and assorted expatriates. Among these patrons is the waitress Gentille, a beautiful Hutu often mistaken for a Tutsi, long admired by Valcourt, a Canadian journalist and film-maker. As the two test the water with a love affair, civil unrest in Rwanda makes insidious, inevitable progress. An immensely powerful, cathartic denunciation of poverty, ignorance, global apathy and media blindness. A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali is both a poignant love story and a stirring hymn to humanity - an essential read for anyone interested in exceptional literature of lasting value.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 320
 Edition: Main
 Publisher: Canongate Books Ltd
Published: 28 Jun 2004
ISBN 10: 1841955256
ISBN 13: 9781841955254
Book Overview: A beautifully written and highly emotive novel based on the true events of the Rwandan genocide

Media Reviews
Astounding - It's no surprise that this book has won so many prizes. * * Daily Mail * *
Exceptional ... you must read it. * * Sunday Times * *
Corrosive, denunciatory . . . and beautifully written. * * Le Devoir, Montreal * *
A voice that evokes humanity in all its depth and breadth, where the executioner and victim are brother and sister, where death is a daily occurrence. A voice I implore you to listen to . . . Through a felicitous mix of reportage and fiction, Courtemanche has powerfully portrayed a lucid character deeply engaged in a humanist quest. * * Le Journal de Montreal * *
Author Bio
Gil Courtemanche is an author and journalist in international and third-world politics. His recent non-fiction works are Quebec (1998) and Nouvelles douces coleres (1999). Un dimanche a la piscine a Kigali (2001) is his first novel. He also made an award-winning film called 'The Gospel of AIDS'.