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Our Lady of the Nile / Scholastique Mukasonga ; translated from the French by Melanie Mauthner.

by Mukasonga, Scholastique.

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Archipelago Books, 2014.

Girls -- Fiction.

Girls -- Education -- Rwanda -- Fiction.

Rwanda -- Social conditions -- Fiction.

Rwanda -- Politics and government -- Fiction.

Rwanda -- History -- Civil War, 1994 -- Fiction.

9780914671039 (trade pbk.)

0914671030 (trade pbk.)

Notre-Dame du Nil. English.

1st Archipelago Books ed.

244 p. ; 18 cm.

Translated from the French.

"Born in Rwanda in 1956, Scholastique Mukasonga experienced from childhood the violence and humiliation of the ethnic conflicts that shook her country. In 1960, her family was displaced into the under-developed Nyamata. In 1973, she was forced to leave the school of social assistance in Butare and flee to Burundi. She settled in France in 1992. The genocide of the Tutsi swept through Rwanda 2 years later. Mukasonga learned that 27 of her family members had been massacred. Twelve years later, Gallimard published her autobiographical account Inyenzi ou les Cafards, which marked Mukasonga's entry into literature. Her first novel, Notre-Dame du Nil, won the Ahamadou Kourouma prize and the Renaudot prize in 2012."--From publisher.

Literary fiction.

Historical fiction.

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