Our lady of the Nile
Subtitle: a novel
By: Scholastique Mukasonga ; translated from the French by Melanie Mauthner
Publisher: Archipelago Books
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Brooklyn, NY
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780914671046
Subjects: Girls; Fiction; Education; Politics and government; Filles; Romans, nouvelles; Éducation; Politique et gouvernement; FICTION; General
Work titles: Notre-Dame du Nil
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
Notes: Title from resource description page (Recorded Books, viewed April 14, 2014).

Translated from the French.