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.