Our Lady of the Nile

244 pages

English language

Published Dec. 23, 2014

ISBN:
978-0-914671-03-9
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OCLC Number:
866614988

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For her most recent work and first novel - Notre-Dame du Nil, originally published in March 2012 with Gallimard in French - Mukasonga immerses us in a school for young girls, called "Notre-Dame du Nil." The girls are sent to this high school perched on the ridge of the Nile in order to become the feminine elite of the country and to escape the dangers of the outside world. The book is a prelude to the Rwandan genocide and unfolds behind the closed doors of the school, in the interminable rainy season. Friendships, desires, hatred, political fights, incitation to racial violence, persecutions... The school soon becomes a fascinating existential microcosm of the true 1970s Rwanda.

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Subjects

  • Social conditions
  • Politics and government
  • Education
  • Girls
  • Fiction

Places

  • Rwanda

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