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A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali

By - Courtemanche, Gil
Floor - Floor 3
Published - Vintage Books, New York, 2004, ©2003
ISBN 10 - 1400034345
ISBN 13 - 9781400034345
Book Status - 1 Qnty Available with us.
Subject - Rwanda
Shelf No - 10
Call Number - 843.914 COU
Physical Description - 259 pages ; 21 cm
Book Information
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.

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