A Sunday At The Pool In Kigali

In the middle of Kigali is a swimming pool at the Hotel des Mille-Collines. It is a magnet for a privileged group of residents, a place where middle-class Rwandans drink with melancholy expatriates and prostitutes. But beyond the walls of the hotel exists a chaotic society in which millions live in poverty, surrounded by violence and disease. In this troubled world, Valcourt, a Canadian journalist, falls for Gentille, a beautiful Hutu waitress. A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali is a poignant love story, a stirring hymn to humanity and a modern classic of spellbinding power, confronting the nightmare that ravaged Rwanda in the 1990s.

Product details

• Authors: Gil Courtemanche, Courtemanche Gil
• Assisted by: Giles Foden (Introduction), Foden Giles (Introduction), Patricia Claxton (Translation), Claxton Patricia (Translation)
• Publisher: Canongate Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 31.05.2018
• EAN: 9781782118886
• ISBN: 978-1-78211-888-6
• No. of pages: 288
• Dimensions: 129 mm x 198 mm x 16 mm
• Series: The Canons; Canons
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / General, Fiction in translation, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary