A Sunday At The Pool In Kigali

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Exceptional . . . you must read it * * Sunday Times * * A Heart of Darkness for today -- YANN MARTEL Intense and gut-wrenching, poetic and disquieting * * Observer * * Illuminating and horrifying, compassionate and scathing * * Times Literary Supplement * * Astounding . . . It's no surprise that this book has won so many prizes * * Daily Mail * * Courtemanche's time in Rwanda, where he worked as a journalist, may have produced the first great novel of the catastrophe that befell that country * * Guardian * * Haunting, graceful . . . with a journalist's unblinking eye and an appreciation of bitter irony * * New York Times * * An intense affair, urgent and nerve-wrackingly ominous, with a surprisingly boisterous humour * * Financial Times * * Courtemanche's work has an enormous quality . . . Read this book * * Spectator * * Very powerful . . . I urge you to read it * * Literary Review * *