Our Lady of the Nile
Scholastique MukasongaFor 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.
种类:
年:
2014
出版社:
Steerforth Press
语言:
english
ISBN 10:
0914671049
ISBN 13:
9780914671046
ISBN:
04c9d280-5a9a-478e-b2b4-40221708ea0c
文件:
MOBI , 481 KB
IPFS:
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english, 2014