01774cam a22002894a 4500 PH-MaWHO PH-MaWHO 20241108112737.0 030411s2003 onc 000 1 eng 9781841955254 1841955256 DLC WPRO Library DLC Courtemanche, Gil. 674727 Dimanche à la piscine à Kigali. English A Sunday at the pool in Kigali / Edinburgh : Canongate, 2003. 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. Genocide Rwanda Fiction. 674728 Genocide Fiction. 674729 Kigali (Rwanda) Social conditions Fiction 674730 Rwanda Histoire 1994 (Guerre civile) Romans, nouvelles, etc. pour la jeunesse. 674731 Rwanda History Civil War, 1994 Fiction. 674732 Historical fiction. 674578 War fiction. 675228 Romance fiction. 675177 17781 17781 0 0 nml 0 0 FIC WPRO WPRO Mez 2024-07-05 donation 0 FIC COUg Sunday FIC0042 2024-05-20 00:00:00 MONO