A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali

First paperback edition. 8vo. Pp. [x], 258, [2 (sources, author's and translator's note)]. Pictorial wraps. With the author's preface and translator's note. Paperback trade edition, published simultaneously with the casebound issue.

Translated from the French by Patricia Claxton from the 2000 novel Un dimanche à la piscine à Kigali.

Author's debut novel. Winner of the 2001 Prix des libraires du Québec. Nominated for the 2003 Governor General's Literary Award for French to English translation. A poignant love story set during the 1994 Rwandan genocide. Basis for the 2006 feature film directed by Robert Favreau, Un dimanche à Kigali, starring Luc Picard and Fatou N'Diaye. "Extraordinary... this fresco with humanist accents, that could easily find a place next to the works of Albert Camus and Graham Greene, is my novel of the year." –La Presse