In the middle of Kigali is a swimming pool at the Hôtel des Mille-Collines. It is a magnet for a privileged group of residents, a place where middle-class Rwandans drink with melancholy expatriates and prostitutes. But beyond the walls of the hotel exists a chaotic society in which millions live in poverty, surrounded by violence and disease. In this troubled world, Valcourt, a Canadian journalist, falls for Gentille, a beautiful Hutu waitress.

A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali is a poignant love story, a stirring hymn to humanity and a modern classic of spellbinding power, confronting the nightmare that ravaged Rwanda in the 1990s.

"Exceptional . . . you must read it" - * Sunday Times *

"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 *