A Sunday At The Pool In Kigali by Gil Courtemanche
With an introduction by Giles Foden
A Heart of Darkness for today -- Yann Martel
Exceptional. . you must read it - or allow it to read you * * Sunday Times * *
An intense affair, urgent and nerve-wrackingly ominous, with a surprisingly boisterous humour * * Financial Times * *
Brilliant, beautiful, upsetting, angry, seductive, impassioned, polemical and horrifying * * Herald * *
Astounding - It's no surprise that this book has won so many prizes * * Daily Mail * *
This powerful and astonishing novel is one of the most important to be set in Africa since Camus' The Plague * * Scotsman * *
Corrosive, denunciatory . . . and beautifully written * * Le Devoir, Montreal * *
A voice that evokes humanity in all its depth and breadth, where the executioner and victim are brother and sister, where death is a daily occurrence. A voice I implore you to listen to . . . Through a felicitous mix of reportage and fiction, Courtemanche has powerfully portrayed a lucid character deeply engaged in a humanist quest * * Le Journal de Montreal * *
Exceptional. . you must read it - or allow it to read you * * Sunday Times * *
An intense affair, urgent and nerve-wrackingly ominous, with a surprisingly boisterous humour * * Financial Times * *
Brilliant, beautiful, upsetting, angry, seductive, impassioned, polemical and horrifying * * Herald * *
Astounding - It's no surprise that this book has won so many prizes * * Daily Mail * *
This powerful and astonishing novel is one of the most important to be set in Africa since Camus' The Plague * * Scotsman * *
Corrosive, denunciatory . . . and beautifully written * * Le Devoir, Montreal * *
A voice that evokes humanity in all its depth and breadth, where the executioner and victim are brother and sister, where death is a daily occurrence. A voice I implore you to listen to . . . Through a felicitous mix of reportage and fiction, Courtemanche has powerfully portrayed a lucid character deeply engaged in a humanist quest * * Le Journal de Montreal * *
Gil Courtemanche is an author and journalist in international and third-world politics. He has written many non-fiction works and made the award-winning documentary The Gospel of AIDS. A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali, originally published in 2000, won the Prix des libraires, the booksellers' award for the outstanding book of the year. Patricia Claxton is one of Canada's foremost translators, and has won the Governor General's Award for Translation on two separate occasions.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780857862174 |
| ISBN 10 | 0857862170 |
| Title | A Sunday At The Pool In Kigali |
| Author | Gil Courtemanche |
| Series | Canons |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Canongate Books |
| Year published | 2011-08-18 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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