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A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali
A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali | Gil Courtemanche, Patricia Claxton
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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 Sunday at the Pool in Kigali | Gil Courtemanche, Patricia Claxton
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A Sunday in bed at home 🤷🏽‍♂️

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Sunday at the Pool in Kigali (Revised) | Gil Courtemanche
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Reading this book on a gloomy, rainy day I think is not a good idea. Not because it offers no hope, in fact it does, but merely because the scenes are so horrifying and shocking that adds to the sullen mood of the moment. But how can a novel be so tragic and yet so beautiful? A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali is a bold story about the genocide in Rwanda in 1994. Mutilation, rape, hacking, betrayal, ethnic 👇

thevagabondlawyer cleansing, you name it. It's all here. And yet Gil Courtemanche never wavers in depicting what it means to live and to be alive when there seems to be no more reason to celebrate life. This book is beautifully written. It is sad and dark and brutal but also full of humor. You'll invest so much emotions on this. But it's worth it. You'll feel the depth and wisdom of living and dying, of love and longing, of hope and moving on. 👏🙏 4y
erzascarletbookgasm Great review 👍 4y
thevagabondlawyer @erzascarletbookgasm Thank you 🙏 4y
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A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali | Gil Courtemanche, Patricia Claxton
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Should not have read this over Christmas. ...but glad I read it! A raw, awful yet beautiful story of the author's love for and experience living in Rwanda during the genocide on assignment. Although a work of fiction it has real characters and references true events. Haunting writing for its boldness in love and death. Rated R for violence and sex/rape scenes. It was made into a movie, but not sure I can relive this story again! 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟

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