Sunday at the Pool in Kigali

Name: Sunday at the Pool in Kigali
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ISBN: 9781400034345

ISBN-10: 1400034345

ISBN-13: 9781400034345

Edition: N/A

Authors: Gil Courtemanche

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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…

Book details

List price: $15.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/12/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 272
Size: 5.20" wide x 7.95" long x 0.62" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English