by Scholastique Mukasonga · Gallimard · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070133420
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«Notre-Dame du Nil» is the novel by Scholastique Mukasonga published by Gallimard in paperback (240 pages, in French).
In the mountains of Rwanda, a Catholic girls' boarding school near the Nile brings together students who experience friendships, desires and grudges; Tutsi students make up no more than 10%. An eccentric painter and anthropologist, convinced of the Tutsi's pharaonic origin, adds tension to a microcosm that anticipates the 1994 Rwandan genocide.
The novel was published in 2012 in Gallimard's Continents Noirs collection and won the Prix Renaudot and the Ahmadou Kourouma Prize.
For readers of African literature and historical fiction interested in pre-1994 Rwanda.
