Gil Courtemanche

A Sunday At The Pool In Kigali (eBook, ePUB)

Übersetzer: Claxton, Patricia

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

"Illuminating and horrifying, compassionate and scathing." Times Literary Supplement

Set during the Rwandan genocide, A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali is an immensely powerful and cathartic denunciation of poverty, ignorance, global apathy and media blindness, as well as a poignant love story and a stirring hymn to humanity.

"Courtemanche's exceptional book reminds us how a novel can involve the reader imaginatively and morally in ways a work of history or journalism never could ... You will read many of the pages of this great and complex book in shock and horror. But you must read it - or allow it to read you."
Sunday Times

"Courtemanche's work has an enormous quality ... Read this book."
Spectator

"Brilliant, beautiful, upsetting, angry, seductive, impassioned, polemical and horrifying."
Herald

"Astounding ... It's no surprise that this book has won so many prizes."
Daily Mail

"Very powerful ... I urge you to read it."
Literary Review

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. September 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781847677037
• Artikelnr.: 39273092

Autorenporträt

Gil Courtemanche was born in Montreal in 1943 and died in 2011. A journalist, broadcaster, writer and filmmaker in international and third-world politics, he was the author of numerous works of fiction and non-fiction, and made the award-winning documentary The Gospel of AIDS. Courtemanche won the National Magazine Award for political reporting and was a consultant for the chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Court.

Patricia Claxton is one of Canada's foremost translators, winning her first Governor General's Award for translation in 1987 for La Detresse et L'Enchantement by Gabrielle Roy, and her second in 1999 for Francois Ricard's biography of the same writer.