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"A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali" is a sad and haunting novel about two improbable lovers -- a weary Canadian journalist and a young Rwandan barmaid -- who try to claim their ration of happiness in a country riddled with AIDS and teetering on the brink of genocide. The writing is spare, full of menace, and wonderfully evocative of Africa/5(75).  · 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 Brand: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.  · A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali. by Gil Courtemanche. translated by Patricia Claxton. £, Canongate, pp. A couple of years before the genocide, I Author: Giles Foden.

By Gil Courtemanche. Oct. 26, In the middle of Kigali there is a swimming pool surrounded by deckchairs and a score of tables all made of white plastic. And forming a huge L overhanging this. A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali is a novel by Quebecois author Gil Courtemanche, first published in French in , followed by an English translation by Vintage in Set during the height of the Rwandan genocide, it charts the tragic love story of documentary filmmaker Bernard Valcourt and a Hutu waitress named Gentille. A SUNDAY AT THE POOL IN KIGALI. Debut fiction by French-Canadian journalist Courtemanche tells of star-crossed lovers caught in the maelstrom of Rwanda's civil war. Most North Americans had never heard of Rwanda before the country erupted into violence and genocide in the early s, so Courtemanche has to spend a fair amount of time.

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, elegant build of a Tutsi. A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali (original French title: Un dimanche à la piscine à Kigali) is the first novel by Montreal author Gil Courtemanche, originally published in Set in Kigali, Rwanda, the novel deals with a love affair between an elder Canadian expatriate and a young Rwandan, AIDS and the Rwandan genocide. "A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali" is a sad and haunting novel about two improbable lovers -- a weary Canadian journalist and a young Rwandan barmaid -- who try to claim their ration of happiness in a country riddled with AIDS and teetering on the brink of genocide. The writing is spare, full of menace, and wonderfully evocative of Africa.