A Sunday at the pool in Kigali.
A Sunday at the pool in Kigali.
By
:
Courtemanche, Gil.
Publication Date
:
2003
Subject Term
:
Canadian fiction.
Genre
:
Historical fiction
Summary
:
The swimming pool of the Mille-Collines hotel, Kigali, in the early 1990s, draws a regular crowd of assorted aid workers, strutting Rwandan officials, Belgian businessmen, French paratroops and Canadian expats. Among them is Bernard Valcourt, a documentary filmmaker from Quebec, on a mission to set up a television station in the capital. Valcourt, who for two decades has earned his living from wars and famines, lingers around the pool drinking warm beer and watching football; but most of all, watching Gentille, a beautiful young waitress, who is a Hutu but often mistaken for a Tutsi because of her family’s strange history.
Language
:
English
ISBN
:
9780676974829
Library | Collection | Collection | Call Number | Status |
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Grand Falls-Windsor (CGF) Harmsworth | Adult Fic Softcover | Adult Fiction Softcover | FIC COU | Back Room |