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Title: Our Lady of the Nile
Author: MUKASONGA SCHOLASTIQUE
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 04/05/2021
Imprint: DAUNT BOOKS
Price: $27.00
Publishing status: Active
Parents send their daughters to Our Lady of the Nile to be molded 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 lycee 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.
ISBN: 9781911547884
Dimension: 198mm X 128mm
Edition: 01