A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali
Gil Courtemanche$13.60
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A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali is a moving, passionate love story set amid the turmoil and terror of Rwanda's genocide.
All manner of Kigali residents pass their time by the pool of the Mille-Collines hotel: aid workers, Rwandan bourgeoisie, expatriates, UN peacekeepers, prostitutes. Keeping a watchful eye is Bernard Valcourt, a jaded foreign journalist, but his closest attention is devoted to Gentille, a hotel waitress with the slender, elegant build of a Tutsi. As they slip into an intense, improbable affair, the delicately balanced world around them-already devastated by AIDS-erupts in a Hutu-led genocide against the Tutsi people. Valcourt's efforts to spirit Gentille to safety end in their separation. It will be months before he learns of his lover's shocking fate.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 10/12/2004
ISBN: 9781400034345
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.04h x 5.24w x 0.60d
Award: Governor General's Literary Awards - Finalist
Review Citations: New York Times 01/02/2005 pg. 16
All manner of Kigali residents pass their time by the pool of the Mille-Collines hotel: aid workers, Rwandan bourgeoisie, expatriates, UN peacekeepers, prostitutes. Keeping a watchful eye is Bernard Valcourt, a jaded foreign journalist, but his closest attention is devoted to Gentille, a hotel waitress with the slender, elegant build of a Tutsi. As they slip into an intense, improbable affair, the delicately balanced world around them-already devastated by AIDS-erupts in a Hutu-led genocide against the Tutsi people. Valcourt's efforts to spirit Gentille to safety end in their separation. It will be months before he learns of his lover's shocking fate.
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 10/12/2004
ISBN: 9781400034345
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.04h x 5.24w x 0.60d
Award: Governor General's Literary Awards - Finalist
Review Citations: New York Times 01/02/2005 pg. 16