num_pages: 244
description: For her most recent work and first novel - Notre-Dame du Nil originally published in March 2012 with Gallimard in French - Mukasonga immerses us in a school for young girls called Notre-Dame du Nil. The girls are sent to this high school perched on the ridge of the Nile in order to become the feminine elite of the country and to escape the dangers of the outside world. The book is a prelude to the Rwandan genocide and unfolds behind the closed doors of the school in the interminable rainy season. Friendships desires hatred political fights incitation to racial violence persecutions... The school soon becomes a fascinating existential microcosm of the true 1970s Rwanda.
language: English
title: Our Lady of the Nile
publisher: Archipelago