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Despite Mother Superior whispering, ‘We’re so close to heaven,’ in a calm and collected convent high up in the misty Rwandan hills, a student, Gloriosa, a Hutu with an influential father, finds the nose of the Virgin Mary statue offensive. It is the nose of a Tutsi, she announces. Ethnic enmities begin to make themselves known…
A haunting book with shafts of light, comedy and a deft touch, Our Lady of the Nile is set in a convent school in Rwanda just before the genocide. Taut and written with simplicity and beauty, Scholastique Mukasonga’s writing has an eye for satire that will leave the reader wondering long after she has closed the book.
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Kibogo (Paperback)
Scholastique Mukasonga; Translated by Mark Polizzotti
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Discovery Miles 2 540
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Our Lady Of The Nile (Paperback)
Scholastique Mukasonga; Translated by Melanie Mauthner
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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.
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Igifu (Paperback)
Scholastique Mukasonga, Jordan Stump
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Discovery Miles 3 630
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Scholastique Mukasonga's autobiographical stories rend a glorious
Rwanda from the obliterating force of recent history, conjuring the
noble cows of her home or the dew-swollen grass they graze on. In
the title story, five-year-old Colomba tells of a merciless
overlord, hunger or igifu, gnawing away at her belly. She searches
for sap at the bud of a flower, scraps of sweet potato at the foot
of her parent s bed, or a few grains of sorghum in the floor
sweepings. Igifu becomes a dizzying hole in her stomach, a plunging
abyss into which she falls.
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Cockroaches (Paperback)
Scholastique Mukasonga; Translated by Jordan Stump
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R320
Discovery Miles 3 200
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The Barefoot Woman (Paperback)
Scholastique Mukasonga; Translated by Jordan Stump
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Discovery Miles 2 510
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