Présentation de l'éditeur
The swimming pool of the Mille-Collines hotel is a magnet for a privileged group of Kigali residents: aid-workers, Rwandan bourgeoisie, soldiers, prostitutes and assorted expatriates. Among these patrons is the waitress Gentille, a beautiful Hutu often mistaken for a Tutsi, long admired by Valcourt, a Canadian journalist and film-maker. As the two test the water with a love affair, civil unrest in Rwanda makes insidious, inevitable progress. An immensely powerful, cathartic denunciation of poverty, ignorance, global apathy and media blindness. A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali is both a poignant love story and a stirring hymn to humanity - an essential read for anyone interested in exceptional literature of lasting value.
Biographie de l'auteur
Gil Courtemanche is an author and journalist in international and third-world politics. His recent non-fiction works are Québec (1998) and Nouvelles douces colères (1999). Un dimanche à la piscine à Kigali (2001) is his first novel. He also made an award-winning film called 'The Gospel of AIDS'.
