Scholastique Mukasonga. translated from the French by Melanie Mauthner. Archipelago Books A book review by Danny Yee © www.doorway.ru Nestled high up in the mountains, near a spring which purports to be the source of the Nile, Our Lady of the Nile is a boarding school which caters to the daughters of the Rwandan elite. As ethnic tensions mount nationally in the s, they are . Born in Rwanda in , Scholastique Mukasonga experienced from childhood the violence and humiliation of the ethnic conflicts that shook her country. In , her family was displaced into the under-developed Nyamata. In , she was forced to leave the school of social assistance in Butare and flee to Burundi. She settled in France in · In her first novel, Our Lady of the Nile, originally published in by Gallimard, Scholastique Mukasonga drops us into an elite Catholic boarding school for young women perched on the ridge of the Nile. Parents send their daughters to Our Lady of the Nile to be molded into respectable citizens and to escape the dangers of the outside www.doorway.ruted Reading Time: 5 mins.
Our Lady Of The Nile by Scholastique Mukasonga, , available at Book Depository with free delivery worldwide. 'Scholastique Mukasonga has wrought pain, grief and anger into art. Our Lady of the Nile demands that we ask ourselves how and where violence begins, and offers a clear eyed view of a world falling apart. It is an important contribution to the literature of witness to Rwanda's agony.'. %T Our Lady of the Nile %A Mukasonga, Scholastique %M French %F Mauthner, Melanie %I Archipelago Books %D %O paperback %G ISBN %P pp.
Our Lady of the Nile, by Scholastique Mukasonga, translated by Melanie Mauthner, Daunt Books, RRP£, pages. Join our online book group on Facebook at FT Books Café. scholastique mukasonga's our lady of the nile (notre-dame du nil), set in a rwandan an all-girls catholic school, presages the genocidal horrors that were to follow a decade and a half later. with steadily increasing conflict and simmering racial tension, mukasonga's story reaches its climax as the world around its characters is forced into a realm of deceit, hysteria, intolerance, clashing loyalties, and impending violence. Born in Rwanda in , Scholastique Mukasonga experienced from childhood the violence and humiliation of the ethnic conflicts that shook her country. In , her family was displaced into the under-developed Nyamata. In , she was forced to leave the school of social assistance in Butare and flee to Burundi. She settled in France in
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