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Meeting at a hotel swimming pool alongside a motley group of Kigali residents, beautiful Hutu Gentille and foreign journalist Bernard fall in love and prepare to marry, but when violence breaks out between Gentille's people and the Tutsi, the pair is separated by desperate circumstances. Reprint. 12,500 first printing.
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A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali is a moving, passionate love story set amid the turmoil and terror of Rwanda's genocide.All manner of Kigali residents pass their time by the pool of the Mille-Collines hotel: aid workers, Rwandan bourgeoisie, expatriates, UN peacekeepers, prostitutes. Keeping a watchful eye is Bernard Valcourt, a jaded foreign journalist, but his closest attention is devoted to Gentille, a hotel waitress with the slender, elegant build of a Tutsi. As they slip into an intense, improbable affair, the delicately balanced world around them'already devastated by AIDS'erupts in a Hutu-led genocide against the Tutsi people. Valcourt's efforts to spirit Gentille to safety end in their separation. It will be months before he learns of his lover's shocking fate.
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