Our Lady of the Nile

by Scholastique Mukasonga

Book Overview

Friendship, deceit, fear, and persecution at an elite boarding school for young women in Rwanda, fifteen years before the 1994 genocide of the Tutsi . . . "Mukasonga's masterpiece" (Julian Lucas, NYRB)

Scholastique Mukasonga drops us into an elite Catholic boarding school for young women perched on the edge of the Nile. Parents send their daughters to Our Lady of the Nile to be molded into respectable citizens and to escape the dangers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0914671030
• ISBN13: 9780914671039
• Release Date: September 2014
• Publisher: Archipelago Books
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.4" x 7.1"