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A Sunday at the pool in Kigali

In the middle of Kigali is a swimming pool at the Hotel des Mille-Collines. It is a magnet for a privileged group of residents, a place where international experts mix with aid-workers, middle-class Rwandans drink with melancholy expatriates and prostitutes. But beyond the walls of the hotel exists the underbelly of a chaotic society. Thousands of households are affected by violence, disease and poverty. Amid this troubled world, a Canadian journalist named Valcourt falls for a beautiful Hutu waitress who goes by the name of Gentille. Their relationship develop as militiamen pass out machetes in the neighbourhoods. Civil unrest threatens what little order remains in the city. When news of the trouble reaches the world of the hotel, both Valcourt and Gentille speak out against the brutal attacks but are met with apathetic UN forces, corrupt policemen and the blindness of western media outlets. A microcosm for the competing powers and influential groups in Rwanda, A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali looks at those involved in one of the most tragic events of the twentieth century.

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  • "Dimanche à la piscine à Kigali"

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  • "In the middle of Kigali is a swimming pool at the Hotel des Mille-Collines. It is a magnet for a privileged group of residents, a place where international experts mix with aid-workers, middle-class Rwandans drink with melancholy expatriates and prostitutes. But beyond the walls of the hotel exists the underbelly of a chaotic society. Thousands of households are affected by violence, disease and poverty. Amid this troubled world, a Canadian journalist named Valcourt falls for a beautiful Hutu waitress who goes by the name of Gentille. Their relationship develop as militiamen pass out machetes in the neighbourhoods. Civil unrest threatens what little order remains in the city. When news of the trouble reaches the world of the hotel, both Valcourt and Gentille speak out against the brutal attacks but are met with apathetic UN forces, corrupt policemen and the blindness of western media outlets. A microcosm for the competing powers and influential groups in Rwanda, A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali looks at those involved in one of the most tragic events of the twentieth century."@en
  • "Bernard Valcourt, journaliste québécois, part au début des années 90 au Rwanda pour installer une télévision libre et indépendante. Sur place il découvre l'univers des Occidentaux réunis chaque semaine autour de la piscine d'un hôtel mais aussi la violence dans le pays, les prémices du génocide avec les exactions des milices, les massacres dans les villages. Premier roman."
  • "Follows the lives of an eclectic group of individuals who frequent a hotel swimming pool in a Rwandan town including Gentille, a beautiful Hutu often mistaken for a Tutsi, who has long been admired by Bernard Valcourt, a Canadian journalist. As the two slide into a love affair, civil unrest in Rwanda makes insidious progress, engulfing the people around the pool in the chaos of civil war."
  • "Follows the lives of an eclectic group of individuals who frequent a hotel swimming pool in a Rwandan town including Gentille, a beautiful Hutu often mistaken for a Tutsi, who has long been admired by Bernard Valcourt, a Canadian journalist. As the two slide into a love affair, civil unrest in Rwanda makes insidious progress, engulfing the people around the pool in the chaos of civil war."@en
  • "Meeting at a hotel swimming pool, beautiful Hutu Gentille and foreign journalist Bernard fall in love and prepare to marry, but when violence breaks out between Gentille's people and the Tutsi, the pair is separated by desperate circumstances."
  • "Meeting at a hotel swimming pool, beautiful Hutu Gentille and foreign journalist Bernard fall in love and prepare to marry, but when violence breaks out between Gentille's people and the Tutsi, the pair is separated by desperate circumstances."@en
  • "A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali is a moving, passionate love story set amid the turmoil and terror of Rwanda's genocide. All manner of Kigali residents pass their time by the pool of the Mille-Collines hotel: aid workers, Rwandan bourgeoisie, expatriates, UN peacekeepers, prostitutes. Keeping a watchful eye is Bernard Valcourt, a jaded foreign journalist, but his closest attention is devoted to Gentille, a hotel waitress with the slender, elegant build of a Tutsi. As they slip into an intense, improbable affair, the delicately balanced world around them'already devastated by AIDS'erupts in a Hutu-led genocide against the Tutsi people. Valcourt's efforts to spirit Gentille to safety end in their separation. It will be months before he learns of his lover's shocking fate. From the Trade Paperback edition."
  • "-- A Sunday at the Pool in KigaliQuill & Quire reviewer said, it is "full of real people that demand to be remembered.""
  • "Avec cet ouvrage, exceptionnel, douloureux pour l'esprit, accablant pour l'espèce, vous aviez pénétré dans le pays des morts, partageant la marche funèbre d'un homme blanc aimant par-dessus tout une femme noire au coeur d'une Afrique rouge de sang. Entrer dans ce livre, c'est accéder à un univers où le jour ne se lève plus."
  • "Bernard Valcourt, a Canadian journalist begins a love affair with Gentille, a Hutu waitress in a Rwandan hotel. Civil war brings chaos, enveloping all who are at the hotel in unrest. Some descriptions of violence. 2003. Read by Margaret Johuson."@en

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  • "Tekstuitgave"
  • "Love stories"@en
  • "Livres électroniques"
  • "Vertalingen (vorm)"
  • "Romans (teksten)"
  • "Conference papers and proceedings"
  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Belletristische Darstellung"
  • "Electronic books"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "French-Canadian fiction"@en
  • "History"@en
  • "History"

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  • "Un dimanche à la piscine à Kigali roman"
  • "Nedelja na bazenu u Kigaliju"
  • "Un Diumenge a la piscina a Kigali"@ca
  • "Een zondag aan het zwembad in Kigali"
  • "A Sunday at the pool in Kigali"@en
  • "A Sunday at the pool in Kigali"
  • "Un dimanche à la piscine à Kigali"
  • "Ein Sonntag am Pool in Kigali"
  • "Dimanche à la piscine à Kigali"
  • "Un Domingo en la piscina en Kingali"
  • "A Sunday At The Pool In Kigali"
  • "Kigalin sunnuntait"
  • "Kigalin sunnuntait"@fi
  • "Un dimanche à la piscine à Kigali : roman"
  • "Un diumenge a la piscina a Kigali"
  • "Un dimanche a la piscine à Kigali : roman"
  • "Um domingo na piscina em Kigali : romance"
  • "A sunday by the pool in Kigali"
  • "Mi kiraki Kigalium jravazani mot : vep"
  • "Niedziela na basenie w Kigali"@pl
  • "Niedziela na basenie w Kigali"
  • "Ein Sonntag am Pool in Kigal"
  • "En søndag ved bassenget i Kigali"
  • "Sunday at the pool in Kigali"
  • "En søndag ved svømmebassinet i Kigali"@da
  • "En søndag ved svømmebassinet i Kigali"
  • "a Sunday at the pool in Kigali"
  • "Un domingo en la piscina en Kigali"@es
  • "Un domingo en la piscina en Kigali"

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