Our Lady of the Nile [electronic resource]
Scholastique Mukasonga2021
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'There is no better lycée than Our Lady of the Nile. Nor is there any higher.
Twenty-five hundred metres, the white teachers proudly proclaim.'
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.
Main title:
Our Lady of the Nile [electronic resource] / Scholastique Mukasonga
Author:
Scholastique Mukasonga, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Daunt Books, 2021
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
Audience:
General/trade
System details:
Platform: epubMode of access: Internet
ISBN:
9781911547891
Language:
English
BRN:
434665
Electronic access:
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