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The swimming pool of the Mille-Collines hotel is a magnet for a privileged group of Kigali residents. Among the patrons is the waitress Gentille, a beautiful Hutu often mistaken for a Tutsi, long admired by Valcourt, a Canadian journalist and film-maker.
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"A Heart of Darkness for today" (YANN MARTEL)
"Intense and gut-wrenching, poetic and disquieting" (Observer)
"Illuminating and horrifying, compassionate and scathing" (Times Literary Supplement)
"Astounding . . . It's no surprise that this book has won so many prizes" (Daily Mail)
"Courtemanche's time in Rwanda, where he worked as a journalist, may have produced the first great novel of the catastrophe that befell that country" (Guardian)
"Haunting, graceful . . . with a journalist's unblinking eye and an appreciation of bitter irony" (New York Times)
"An intense affair, urgent and nerve-wrackingly ominous, with a surprisingly boisterous humour" (Financial Times)
"Courtemanche's work has an enormous quality . . . Read this book" (Spectator)
"Very powerful . . . I urge you to read it" (Literary Review)
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- PublisherCanongate Books
- Publication date2003
- ISBN 10 1841954535
- ISBN 13 9781841954530
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages276
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