Our Lady of the Nile
First Archipelago Books edition.
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Author
Contributions
- Mauthner, Melanie L., 1964- translator - Contributor
Publication
2014 - Archipelago Books, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
61,000 words, Guess
Page Count
244 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveourladyofnile0000muka
- ISBN-100914671030
- ISBN-139780914671039
- Library of Congress Control Number2014024136
- OCLC Control Number866614988
and 2 more
- Better World Books9780914671039
- Open LibraryOL27170318M
Classifications
- DDC843/.92
- LCCPQ3989.3.M843 N6813 2014
- LCCPQ3989.3.M843N6813
Description
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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