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WINNER OF THE PRIX DES LIBRARIES DU QUEBEC
The swimming pool at tile Mille-Collines hotel is a magnet for a
diverse group of Kigali residents: aid workers, Rwandan businessmen, expatriates, soliers and prostitutes. Among them is Gentille, a hotel waitress and beautiful Hum often mistaken for a Tutsi, who has long been admired by Bernard Valcourt, a Canadian film-maker. As their tender love affair grows in intensity, the country begins to slide into the brutal chaos of civil war.
With deep compassion and consummate control, Courtemanche navigates this contemporary holocaust, merging the personal and the political in a novel of spellbinding power. A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali is, above all, a stirring hymn to humanity that will move and challenge all who read it.
“A blunt, vividly visualaccount of a human cataclysm that has left a scar on the psyche of us all. At the same time it is a testament to love, its durability and frailty in the face of annihilation. Do not expect it to leave you untouched.”
The swimming pool at tile Mille-Collines hotel is a magnet for a
diverse group of Kigali residents: aid workers, Rwandan businessmen, expatriates, soliers and prostitutes. Among them is Gentille, a hotel waitress and beautiful Hum often mistaken for a Tutsi, who has long been admired by Bernard Valcourt, a Canadian film-maker. As their tender love affair grows in intensity, the country begins to slide into the brutal chaos of civil war.
With deep compassion and consummate control, Courtemanche navigates this contemporary holocaust, merging the personal and the political in a novel of spellbinding power. A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali is, above all, a stirring hymn to humanity that will move and challenge all who read it.
“A blunt, vividly visualaccount of a human cataclysm that has left a scar on the psyche of us all. At the same time it is a testament to love, its durability and frailty in the face of annihilation. Do not expect it to leave you untouched.”