{"id":53,"date":"2015-08-30T17:15:19","date_gmt":"2015-08-30T15:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scholastiquemukasonga.net\/en\/?p=53"},"modified":"2015-09-25T17:30:30","modified_gmt":"2015-09-25T15:30:30","slug":"our-lady-of-the-nile-named-a-best-book-of-2014-by-publishers-weekly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholastiquemukasonga.net\/en\/our-lady-of-the-nile-named-a-best-book-of-2014-by-publishers-weekly\/","title":{"rendered":"Our Lady of the Nile Named a \u201cBest Book of 2014\u201d by Publishers Weekly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m honored that my novel &#8216;<em>Our Lady of the Nile&#8217;, published by <a href=\"https:\/\/archipelagobooks.org\" target=\"_blank\">Archipelago books<\/a>, has made the <em>Publishers Weekly <\/em>\u201cBest Books of 2014\u201d list!<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Mukasonga\u2019s 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\u2019 daily experiences at the school, sheds light on the growing political, ethnic, and social hostility of a country moving toward disaster.\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a title=\"Best Books of 2014 | Publisher's Weekly\" href=\"http:\/\/best-books.publishersweekly.com\/pw\/best-books\/2014\/fiction\/#book\/book-14\" target=\"_blank\">Head to Publishers Weekly website<\/a> to see the full line-up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m honored that my novel &#8216;Our Lady of the Nile&#8217;, published by Archipelago books, has made the Publishers Weekly \u201cBest Books of 2014\u201d list! 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