A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali

Brand: Vintage

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UPC:
9781400034345
Maximum Purchase:
3 units
Binding:
Paperback
Publication Date:
2004-10-12
Release Date:
2004-10-12
Author:
Gil Courtemanche
Language:
english
Edition:
59886th
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A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali is a moving, passionate love story set amid the turmoil and terror of Rwandas 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 themalready devastated by AIDSerupts in a Hutu-led genocide against the Tutsi people. Valcourts efforts to spirit Gentille to safety end in their separation. It will be months before he learns of his lovers shocking fate.