by Gil Courtemanche · Tapa blanda · ISBN 9782764601693
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«Un dimanche à la piscine à Kigali» is the novel by Gil Courtemanche published by Boréal in 2002, with 283 pages, in French.
The novel is set in Rwanda in 1994 and follows a journalist who witnesses the outbreak of the genocide and tries to understand the violence around him. Between reportage and intimate narrative, the work addresses love, loss and injustice, as well as the fragility of life during a civil war.
The work belongs to the Boréal compact collection (No. 134); the cover has the subtitle «roman» and the edition was published in Montreal.
For readers interested in the recent history of Rwanda and in novels with a political and humanitarian backdrop.
Gil Courtemanche was a Canadian progressive journalist and novelist in low-income countries and international politics. He wrote for the Montreal newspaper Le Devoir.
