Notre-Dame du Nil
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9782070133420 (2070133427)
Publish date: March 1st 2012
Publisher: Gallimard
Pages no: 223
Edition language: French
This is a short yet somewhat dense novel set in an elite Rwandan girls' boarding school in the 1970s: set well before the genocide but written after, it focuses primarily on the laying of the groundwork for ethnic cleansing. As a novel, though, it didn't do anything for me: the structure is more a s...