New York: Harper & Brothers, (1956.) dj. Hardcover - Collection of 9 French Canadian folk stories, told to told to children at the LeBlanc summer picnic in Vermont to remind them of their ancestors in French Canada; in the beginning they lived near Quebec city and wore long red sashes and later some moved to Montreal where the color was blue. Included Luc Boulanger's Spotted Pig; Claude leBlanc and the Fi-Follet; Sashes Red and Blue; Liitle Nichet's baby Sister; The Dance of the Marionettes, The Hard Master, How Little Nichet Became Jean-Baptiste; The Lutin in the Barn; The Sheep with the Wooden Collar. Illustrated in black and white by Rita Fava 107pp.
Condition: Fine in a very good dust jacket (some edgewear to dj, price-clipped with new publisher's price sticker of 3.50 added.)
Edinburgh: Canongate Books Ltd, (2003) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel by this French Canadian journalist, a love story that takes place in the days leading up to the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, winner of the Prix des Libraires. Among those at the swimming pool of the Mille-Collines hotel, Kigali, in the early 1990s, is Bernard Valcourt, a documentary filmmaker from Quebec. The story of this developing catastrophe is revealed through the lives of a handful of Rwandans who befriend Valcourt. They confide in him because he listens, and because his interviews offer them a chance to try to change the way things are by telling the world. Threatened, frightened, sick, they don't want to talk and…
Edinburgh: Canongate Books Ltd, (2003) dj. Hardcover first edition - The first novel by this French Canadian journalist, a love story that takes place in the days leading up to the 1994 genocide in Rwanda, winner of the Prix des Libraires. Among those at the swimming pool of the Mille-Collines hotel, Kigali, in the early 1990s, is Bernard Valcourt, a documentary filmmaker from Quebec. The story of this developing catastrophe is revealed through the lives of a handful of Rwandans who befriend Valcourt. They confide in him because he listens, and because his interviews offer them a chance to try to change the way things are by telling the world. Threatened, frightened, sick, they don't want to talk and act like they're dying. Poor as they are, they want to have some moments of pleasure and celebrate life. Translated from the French by Patricia Claxton. 258 pp. ISBN: 978-1841954332.
SASHES RED AND BLUE
A SUNDAY AT THE POOL IN KIGALI.
