A Sunday at the pool in Kigali / Gil Courtemanche ; translated by Patricia Claxton.
By: Courtemanche, Gil.
Contributor(s): Claxton, Patricia [tr.].
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BookPublisher: New York : A.A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 2003Edition: 1st U.S. ed.Description: 259 p. ; 22 cm.ISBN: 1400041074.Uniform titles: Dimanche à la piscine à Kigali. English Subject(s): Genocide -- Fiction | Rwanda -- History -- Civil War, 1994 -- Fiction | Journalists -- Fiction | Genocide -- Fiction | Rwanda -- History -- Fiction | Journalists -- FictionDDC classification: 843/.914 Summary: Canadian journalist Bernard Valcourt, in Rwanda to make a film on the local AIDS epidemic, falls in love with Gentille, a beautiful hotel waitress, and the two become tragically caught up in the 1994 Hutu-led genocide against the Tutsi people.
Translation of: Dimanche à la piscine à Kigali.
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Canadian journalist Bernard Valcourt, in Rwanda to make a film on the local AIDS epidemic, falls in love with Gentille, a beautiful hotel waitress, and the two become tragically caught up in the 1994 Hutu-led genocide against the Tutsi people.
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