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Title Our Lady of the Nile / Scholastique Mukasonga ; translated by Melanie Mauthner
Imprint London : Daunt Books Originals, 2021

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Descript 250 pages
Note First published as Notre-Dame du Nil by Editions Gallimard, Paris, 2012
"Parents send their daughters to Our Lady of the Nile to be moulded into respectable citizens, and to protect them from the dangers of the outside world. The young ladies are expected to learn, eat, and live together, presided over by the colonial white nuns. It is fifteen years prior to the 1994 Rwandan genocide and a quota permits only two Tutsi students for every twenty pupils. As Gloriosa, the school's Hutu queen bee, tries on her parents' preconceptions and prejudices, Veronica and Virginia, both Tutsis, are determined to find a place for themselves and their history. In the struggle for power and acceptance, the lycée is transformed into a microcosm of the country's mounting racial tensions and violence. During the interminable rainy season, everything slowly unfolds behind the school's closed doors: friendship, curiosity, fear, deceit, and persecution. Our Lady of the Nile is a landmark novel about a country divided and a society hurtling towards horror. In gorgeous and devastating prose, Mukasonga captures the dreams, ambitions and prejudices of young women growing up as their country falls apart."--Publisher's website
engelska
Subject 1962-1994
Sociala förhållanden
Politiska förhållanden
Flickor
Utbildning
Social conditions.
Politics and government.
Girls -- Education.
Rwanda
Rwanda.
Romaner
Fiction.
Classmark 843/.92
18.26
Alt Auth Mauthner, Melanie L., 1964-
Translation Notre-Dame de Nil Engelska
ISBN/ISSN 9781911547884
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