Rwanda in the early '90s. Among the expats of Kigali who socialise around the pool of a tourist hotel, jaded Quebecois journalist Bernard Valcourt falls in love with the astonishingly beautiful Hutu barmaid Gentille. But the deluge is coming.
This unforgettable first novel stays true to actual events as it depicts, shockingly and yet tenderly, the human face of the genocide. Possibly the most important novel of the year.
