# A Sunday At The Pool In Kigali

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- Authors: [Gil Courtemanche](https://www.bookquiver.com/gil-courtemanche)
- Publisher: canongate
- ISBN: 978-17-8211-888-6
- Pages: 288
- Published: 2018-05-03
- Language: en_US
- Binding: Softcover

## Description

In the middle of Kigali is a swimming pool at the Hôtel des Mille-Collines. It is a magnet for a privileged group of residents, a place where middle-class Rwandans drink with melancholy expatriates and prostitutes. But beyond the walls of the hotel exists a chaotic society in which millions live in poverty, surrounded by violence and disease. In this troubled world, Valcourt, a Canadian journalist, falls for Gentille, a beautiful Hutu waitress. A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali is a poignant love story, a stirring hymn to humanity and a modern classic of spellbinding power, confronting the nightmare that ravaged Rwanda in the 1990s.