A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali

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