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A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali
First edition (French)
AuthorGil Courtemanche
Original titleUn dimanche à la piscine à Kigali
TranslatorPatricia Claxton
Published2000 (first French edition)
PublisherLes Éditions du Boréal, Montréal, 2000
Media typeBook
Awardsnominated for the Rogers Writers' Trust Fiction Prize, 2004
ISBN0-676-97482-1

A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali (original French title: Un dimanche à la piscine à Kigali) is the first novel by Montreal author Gil Courtemanche, originally published in 2000.

Set in Kigali, Rwanda, the novel deals with a love affair between an elder Canadian expatriate and a young Rwandan, AIDS and the 1994 Rwandan genocide.

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