FLAVORWIRE selected ‘Our Lady Of The Nile’, translated by Melanie Mauthner (Archipelago), from
the 50 Best Independent Fiction and Poetry Books of 2014.

Read the whole article on FLAVORWIRE site.

This “prelude to the Rwandan genocide” recalls the closed world, preceding Fascism, of Thomas Mann’s The Magic Mountain, which is all the more impressive considering this is Mukasonga’s novelistic debut.