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A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali

Uncorrected proof copy of Gil Courtemanche's A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali

Gil Courtemanche; translated by Patricia Claxton

8vo. Pp. [xii], 258, [2 (sources, publisher's contacts)]. Pictorial wraps. With the author's preface and translator's note.
Translated from the French by Patricia Claxton from the 2000 novel Un dimanche à la piscine à Kigali.
Author's debut novel. Winner of the 2001 Prix des libraires du Québec. Nominated for the 2003 Governor General's Literary Award for French to English translation. A poignant love story set during the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Basis for the 2006 feature film directed by Robert Favreau, Un dimanche à Kigali, starring Luc Picard and Fatou N'Diaye. "Extraordinary... this fresco with humanist accents, that could easily find a place next to the works of Albert Camus and Graham Greene, is my novel of the year." La Presse
format
uncorrected proof
publisher
Canongate
published in
Edinburgh
publication year
2003
ISBN
1841954330
genre
literary fiction
language
English
binding state
original binding
condition
mint
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