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Informationen zum Autor Gil Courtemanche is an author and journalist in international and third-world politics. His recent non-fiction works are Québec (1998) and Nouvelles douces colères (1999). Un dimanche à la piscine à Kigali (2001) is his first novel. He also made an award-winning film called ´The Gospel of AIDS´ . Klappentext "Illuminating and horrifying! compassionate and scathing." Times Literary Supplement Set during the Rwandan genocide! A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali is an immensely powerful and cathartic denunciation of poverty! ignorance! global apathy and media blindness! as well as a poignant love story and a stirring hymn to humanity. "Courtemanche´s exceptional book reminds us how a novel can involve the reader imaginatively and morally in ways a work of history or journalism never could ... You will read many of the pages of this great and complex book in shock and horror. But you must read it - or allow it to read you." Sunday Times "Courtemanche´s work has an enormous quality ... Read this book." Spectator "Brilliant! beautiful! upsetting! angry! seductive! impassioned! polemical and horrifying." Herald "Astounding ... It´s no surprise that this book has won so many prizes." Daily Mail "Very powerful ... I urge you to read it." Literary Review A beautifully written and highly emotive novel based on the true events of the Rwandan genocide Zusammenfassung 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. ...
