A Sunday at the pool in Kigali /
- 258 pages ; 23 cm.
A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali is a moving, passionate love story set amid the turmoil and terror of Rwanda's genocide. All manner of Kigali residents pass their time by the pool of the Mille-Collines 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 them-already devastated by AIDS-erupts in a Hutu-led genocide against the Tutsi people. Valcourt's efforts to spirit Gentille to safety end in their separation. It will be months before he learns of his lover's shocking fate.
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Genocide--Rwanda--Fiction. Genocide--Fiction.
Kigali (Rwanda)--Social conditions--Fiction Rwanda--Histoire--1994 (Guerre civile)--Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse. Rwanda--History--Civil War, 1994--Fiction.