Choices - Fiction
Courtmanche - Sunday at the Pool in Kigali
 | A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali By Gil Courtemanche “The novel of the year” is what La Presse called this extraordinary book, a love story that takes place in the days leading up to the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. A first work of fiction by one of French Canada’s most admired journalists and film-makers, Gil Courtemanche, it was first published in Quebec in 2000, spent more than a year on bestseller lists and won the Prix des Libraires, the booksellers’ award for outstanding book of the year. This humanist story of an unlikely love affair set against a holocaust has become an internationally acclaimed phenomenon. A hard-hitting chronicle of an overlooked chapter of recent history, told with skill and compassion, it is also a celebration of living in the moment, of the integrity of friendship and the courage of everyday heroes. Harrowing, unsettling, challenging, but beautiful and moving. 10 copies |
