A microcosm for the competing powers and influential groups in Rwanda, A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali looks at those involved in one of the most tragic events of the twentieth century. It is a powerful political novel, a poignant love story and a stirring hymn to humanity. With an Introduction by Yann Martel, author of Life of Pi.
| Primary Genre | Modern and Contemporary Fiction |
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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.
A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, General Fiction, Fiction
A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali is available in Paperback
A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali was written by Gil Courtemanche and published by Canongate an imprint of Canongate Books
A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali has 258 pages
