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A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali - Canons

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A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali

A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali - Canons

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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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Type Book
ISBN13 9781841955254
ISBN10 1841955256
Number Of Pages 320
Item Weight 222 g
Product Dimensions 128 x 18 x 194 mm
Publisher / Reseller Canongate Books Ltd
Format paperback
Edition Main
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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 * *

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Author's 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'.

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