Our Lady of the Nile

Scholastique Mukasonga, Melanie Mauthner

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English

DAUNT
18 May 2021

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945); Fiction in translation

Parents send their daughters to Our Lady of the Nile to be molded 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 lycee 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.

By: Scholastique Mukasonga
Translated by: Melanie Mauthner
Imprint: DAUNT
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
ISBN: 9781911547884
ISBN 10: 1911547887
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 18 May 2021
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Scholastique Mukasonga was born in Rwanda in 1956. She settled in France in 1992, only two years before the brutal genocide of the Tutsi swept through Rwanda. In the aftermath, Mukasonga learned that 27 of her family members had been massacred. Her first novel, Our Lady of the Nile, won the Ahamadou Kourouma prize and the Renaudot prize. In 2012, the Oceans France O prize in 2013 and the French Voices Award in 2014. Her other books include Cockroaches, Igifu and The Barefoot Woman, which Daunt Books Originals will publish in 2022.