Sunday At The Pool In Kigali
«Exceptional . . . you must read it»
* Sunday Times *
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. Les mer
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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.
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.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Canongate Canons
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 288
- ISBN
- 9781782118886
- Utgivelsesår
- 2018
- Format
- 20 x 13 cm
- Priser
- The Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize 2003
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«Exceptional . . . you must read it»
* Sunday Times *
«A Heart of Darkness for today»
YANN MARTEL
«Intense and gut-wrenching, poetic and disquieting»
* Observer *
«Illuminating and horrifying, compassionate and scathing»
* Times Literary Supplement *
«Astounding . . . It's no surprise that this book has won so many prizes»
* Daily Mail *
«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»
* Guardian *
«Haunting, graceful . . . with a journalist's unblinking eye and an appreciation of bitter irony»
* New York Times *
«An intense affair, urgent and nerve-wrackingly ominous, with a surprisingly boisterous humour»
* Financial Times *
«Courtemanche's work has an enormous quality . . . Read this book»
* Spectator *
«Very powerful . . . I urge you to read it»
* Literary Review *