Scholastique Mukasonga

Our Lady of the Nile (eBook, ePUB)

A Novel
Übersetzer: Mauthner, Melanie

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Steerforth Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. September 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780914671046
• Artikelnr.: 41500496

Autorenporträt

Born in Rwanda in 1956, Scholastique Mukasonga experienced from childhood the violence and humiliation of the ethnic conflicts that shook her country. In 1960, her family was displaced to the polluted and under-developed Bugesera district of Rwanda. Mukasonga was later forced to flee to Burundi. She settled in France in 1992, only two years before the brutal genocide of the Tutsi swept through Rwanda. In the aftermath, Mukasonga learned that thirty-seven of her family members had been massacred. Her first novel, Our Lady of the Nile, won the 2014 French Voices Award, the Renaudot Prize, the Ahamadou Kourouma Award, and was shortlisted for the 2016 International Dublin Literary Award. In 2017 her memoir Cockroaches was a finalist for the LA Times Christopher Isherwood Prize for Autobiographical Prose and later, the New York Times named it one of the "50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years." Jordan Stump's translation of her memoir, The Barefoot Woman, was named a finalist for the 2019 National Book Award for Translated Literature. In 2019, In 2019, Our Lady of The Nile was adapted into a film by Atiq Rahimi. The film won the "Crystal Bear" at Berlinale 2020 and was part of the Official Selection for TIFF 2019. Melanie Mauthner studied Modern Languages at Wadham College, Oxford and worked as a sociology lecturer before becoming a translator. Her poems and short fiction have appeared in a variety of literary magazines and anthologies. Mauthner performs as part of the London writers' collective, Malika's Poetry Kitchen.