Book description
The swimming pool of the Mille-Collines hotel is a magnet for a
privileged group of Kigali residents: aid-workers, Rwandan bourgeoisie,
soldiers, prostitutes and assorted expatriates. Among these patrons is
the waitress Gentille, a beautiful Hutu often mistaken for a Tutsi, long
admired by Valcourt, a Canadian journalist and film-maker. As the two
test the water with a love affair, civil unrest in Rwanda makes
insidious, inevitable progress. An immensely powerful, cathartic
denunciation of poverty, ignorance, global apathy and media blindness. A
Sunday at the Pool in Kigali is both a poignant love story and a
stirring hymn to humanity - an essential read for anyone interested in
exceptional literature of lasting value.
