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“Look, for people who’re going to be dead soon, we’re not doing too badly.”“The novel of the year” is what La Presse called this extraordinary book, a love story that takes place in the days leading up to the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. A first work of fiction by one of French Canada’s most admired journalists, Gil Courtemanche, it was first published in Quebec in 2000, spent more than a year on bestseller lists and won the Prix des Libraires, the booksellers’ award for outstanding book of the year. Rights were sold to publishers in over twenty countries in Europe and around the world. This humanist story of an unlikely love affair set against a holocaust has become an internationally acclaimed phenomenon, worthy of comparison with the work of Graham Greene and Albert Camus. The swimming pool of the Mille-Collines hotel, Kigali, in the early 1990s, draws a regular crowd of assorted aid workers, strutting Rwandan officials, Belgian businessmen, French paratroops and Canadian expats. Among them is Bernard Valcourt, a documentary filmmaker from Quebec, on a mission to set up a television station in the capital. Valcourt, who for two decades has earned his living from wars and famines, li

Who reads A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali?

Author

Gil Courtemanche

Publisher

Knopf Canada

Published

2000

Language

EN

ISBN

9781400034345

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Literary Fiction, Romance

Rating

3.93 / 5 (42 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14