num_pages: 272
description: 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 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. As they slip into an intense, improbable affair, the delicately balanced world around them–already devastated by AIDS–erupts in a Hutu-led genocide against the Tutsi people. Valcourt’s efforts to spirit Gentille to safety end in their separation. It will be months before he learns of his lover’s shocking fate.
language: English
title: A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali
titlecomplete: A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali
genres: France, Historical, Rwanda, Novels, War, Africa, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction, Fiction, Canada
ratings_count: 3947
places: Rwanda, Kigali
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Prix des libraires du Québec
category: Lauréats québécois, awardedAt: 1041408000000
name: Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize
publisher: Vintage