A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali基加利游泳池的星期天
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作者： Gil Courtemanche著
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出版时间： 2003-9-1字数：版次： 1页数： 258印刷时间：开本： 大32开印次： 1纸张：I S B N ： 9781841954530包装： 平装内容简介
WINNER OF THE PRIX DES LIBRARIES DU QUEBEC
The swimming pool at tile Mille-Collines hotel is a magnet for a
diverse group of Kigali residents: aid workers, Rwandan businessmen, expatriates, soliers and prostitutes. Among them is Gentille, a hotel waitress and beautiful Hum often mistaken for a Tutsi, who has long been admired by Bernard Valcourt, a Canadian film-maker. As their tender love affair grows in intensity, the country begins to slide into the brutal chaos of civil war.
With deep compassion and consummate control, Courtemanche navigates this contemporary holocaust, merging the personal and the political in a novel of spellbinding power. A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali is, above all, a stirring hymn to humanity that will move and challenge all who read it.
“A blunt, vividly visualaccount of a human cataclysm that has left a scar on the psyche of us all. At the same time it is a testament to love, its durability and frailty in the face of annihilation. Do not expect it to leave you untouched.”
JONATHAN KAPLAN, author of The Dressing Statisn
“Brilliant, anguished and righteous . . . There are many unsettling qualities to Gil Courtemanche's extraordinary novel. But above all, it is his insistence on love, and the right to live one's life passionately and well, even in the face of AIDS and the genocide, this double helix of devastating African tragedies, that make this book great.”
Noah Richler,NATIONAL POST
“Extraordinary... this fresco with humanist accents, that could easily find aplace next to the works of Albert Camus and Graham Greene, is my novel of the year.”
LA PRESSE
“A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali is a Heart of Darkness for today, with a meaner edge, the moral lines more blurred. I don't think anyone could read this book without feeling in some way morally tested.”
