A Sunday At The Pool In Kigali
- 3 May 2018
- 9781782118886
- £9.99
- 288 pp
- 129×198mm
- 8 Oct 2009
- 9781847677037
- £7.99
- 288 pp
In a few words
A modern classic of immense power and poignancy set amidst the horror of war
In a few words
A modern classic of immense power and and poignancy set amidst the horror of war
Exceptional . . . you must read it
A Heart of Darkness for today
Yann Martel
Courtemanche's time in Rwanda, where he worked as a journalist, may have produced the first great novel of the catastrophe that befell that country
An intense affair, urgent and nerve-wrackingly ominous, with a surprisingly boisterous humour
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In the middle of Kigali is a swimming pool at the Hôtel 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.
More about
the book
In the middle of Kigali is a swimming pool at the Hôtel 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.
Intense and gut-wrenching, poetic and disquieting
Illuminating and horrifying, compassionate and scathing
Astounding . . . It's no surprise that this book has won so many prizes
Courtemanche's time in Rwanda, where he worked as a journalist, may have produced the first great novel of the catastrophe that befell that country
Intense and gut-wrenching, poetic and disquieting
Courtemanche's work has an enormous quality . . . Read this book
Illuminating and horrifying, compassionate and scathing
Brilliant, beautiful, upsetting, angry, seductive, impassioned, polemical and horrifying
