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Our Lady of the Nile
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Our Lady of the Nile
Introducing Scholastique Mukasonga to the UK: a major international author and her brilliant and award-winning first novel.
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Parents send their daughters to Our Lady of the Nile to be moulded into respectable citizens, and to escape the dangers of the outside world. In the elite school run by white nuns, the young ladies learn, eat, sleep and gossip together.
Fifteen years prior to the 1994 Rwandan genocide, the girls try on their parents' preconceptions and attitudes, transforming the lycée into a microcosm of the country's mounting racial tensions and violence. In the midst of the interminable rainy season, everything unfolds behind the closed doors of the school: friendship, curiosity, fear, deceit, and persecution.
With masterful prose that is at once playful and penetrating, Mukasonga captures a society hurtling toward horror.
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ISBN: 9781911547884
Publisher: Daunt Books
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 18 March 2021
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Daunt Books
Contributors:
- Translated by Melanie Mauthner
Audience: General / adult
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Weight: 0g
Pages: 224
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About the Author
Scholastique Mukasonga was born in Rwanda in 1956. 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 27 of her family members had been massacred. Her first novel, Our Lady of the Nile, won the Ahamadou Kourouma prize and the Renaudot prize. In 2012, the Oceans France O prize in 2013 and the French Voices Award in 2014. Her other books include Cockroaches, Igifu and The Barefoot Woman, which Daunt
Books Originals will publish in 2022.
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