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Our Lady of the Nile Named a “Best Book of 2014” by Publishers Weekly

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Our Lady of the Nile Named a “Best Book of 2014” by Publishers Weekly - Scholastique Mukasonga

I’m honored that my novel ‘Our Lady of the Nile’, published by Archipelago books, has made the Publishers Weekly “Best Books of 2014” list!

Mukasonga’s debut novel uses the titular girls boarding school, perched on a ridge near the source of the Nile, as a lens through which to examine the Hutu and Tutsi conflict in Rwanda. Mainly setting her story 15 years before the 1994 genocide, Mukasonga, through the girls’ daily experiences at the school, sheds light on the growing political, ethnic, and social hostility of a country moving toward disaster.”

Head to Publishers Weekly website to see the full line-up.

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Scholastique Mukasonga is a Rwandan author living in France. She was born in Gikongoro Province in 1956. Mukasonga left Rwanda before the Rwandan genocide, which killed 27 members of her family, her mother being one of them.

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