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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 hotel: 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.

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• Full title: A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali
• Author: Gil Courtemanche, Patricia Claxton
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 272
• EAN: 9781400034345
• ISBN: 1400034345
• ID: 12050783
• Publisher: Vintage Publishing
• Weight: 204 g
• Dimensions: 204 × 133 × 15 mm
• Date of publishing: October 2004

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