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The swimming pool of the Mille-Collines hotel is a magnet for a discrete group of Kigali residents: aid workers, Rwandan bourgeoisie, expatriates and prostitutes. Among these patrons is the hotel waitress Gentille, a beautiful Hutu often mistaken for a Tutsi, who has long been admired by Bernard Valcourt, a foreign journalist. As the two slide into a love affair and prepare for their wedding, we see the world around them coming apart.This land...

Claude Tremblay works as a political analyst at the International Criminal Court at The Hague. But when the Congolese warlord Kabanga, accused of crimes against humanity, is released from trial due to a procedural error, Claude resigns his post and follows the accused back to his home country in search of justice. In The World, the Lizard, and Me, Gil Courtemanche writes a stirring and contemporary Heart of Darkness, utterly compelling in its ...

Ein Hotelpool in Kigali 1994, Treffpunkt für Entwicklungshelfer, Botschaftsangestellte, Journalisten, Geistliche, Prostituierte, Politiker und alle, die in Ruanda das Sagen haben. Hier verliebt sich der alternde kanadische Journalist Valcourt in die schöne junge Kellnerin Gentille, eine Hutu, die verfolgt wird. In dem Land, das von Aids und Armut gezeichnet ist, verdichten sich die Hinweise auf den bevorstehenden Völkermord. Straßensperren wer...

Look, for people who're going to be dead soon, we're not doing too badly.”"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, 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...

A modern classic of immense power and poignancy, confronting the nightmares of war that ravaged Rwanda in the 1990s. Translated by Patricia Claxton.

Illuminating and horrifying, compassionate and scathing." Times Literary SupplementSet during the Rwandan genocide, A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali is an immensely powerful and cathartic denunciation of poverty, ignorance, global apathy and media blindness, as well as a poignant love story and a stirring hymn to humanity."Courtemanche´s exceptional book reminds us how a novel can involve the reader imaginatively and morally in ways a work of hi...

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Translated from Quebecois, Gil Courtemanche's The World, The Lizard and Me is an enthralling story of childhood on two continents as an ICC investigator pursues a Congolese warlord responsible the recruitment and dehumanization of child soldiers in civil wars of central Africa. A moving novel about war, work, obsession and the human condition.

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On Christmas Eve, a family has gathered around the table for the obligatory dinner. The father, once an imposing figure who terrorized his children, has suddenly fallen prey to Parkinson's. Yesterday's tyrant is now trapped inside a disintegrating body. Andre, the eldest child, is nearing 60. He has never loved the father who lied too much, abused too much, manipulated too much. But still, this holiday week, Andre cannot help but be moved. How...

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 hotel: 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, elegan...