{"id":772,"date":"2021-03-22T12:16:37","date_gmt":"2021-03-22T10:16:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scholastiquemukasonga.net\/en\/?p=772"},"modified":"2021-03-22T12:16:39","modified_gmt":"2021-03-22T10:16:39","slug":"out-now-our-lady-of-nile-daunt-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholastiquemukasonga.net\/en\/out-now-our-lady-of-nile-daunt-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Out Now : Our Lady of Nile &#8211; Daunt Books"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I\u2019m delighted to announce you that my book \u201c<em>Our Lady of Nile<\/em>\u201c, translated from french \u201c<em>Notre-Dame du Nile<\/em>\u201d by  <em>Melanie Mauther<\/em> , was released in the United Kingdom via <strong>Daunt Books<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dauntbooks.co.uk\/shop\/books\/our-lady-of-the-nile\/\">Purchase<\/a> \u2018Our Lady Of Nile\u2019 on <strong>Daunt Books<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">DESCRIPTION :<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p> <strong>\u2018There is no better lyc\u00e9e than Our Lady of the Nile. Nor is there any higher. Twenty-five hundred metres, the white teachers proudly proclaim.\u2019<\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Parents send their daughters to Our Lady of the Nile to be moulded \ninto respectable citizens, and to protect them from the dangers of the \noutside world. The young ladies are expected to learn, eat, and live \ntogether, presided over by the colonial white nuns.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is fifteen years prior to the 1994 Rwandan genocide and a quota \npermits only two Tutsi students for every twenty pupils. As Gloriosa, \nthe school\u2019s Hutu queen bee, tries on her parents\u2019 preconceptions and \nprejudices, Veronica and Virginia, both Tutsis, are determined to find a\n place for themselves and their history. In the struggle for power and \nacceptance, the lyc\u00e9e is transformed into a microcosm of the country\u2019s \nmounting racial tensions and violence. During the interminable rainy \nseason, everything slowly unfolds behind the school\u2019s closed doors: \nfriendship, curiosity, fear, deceit, and persecution.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Our Lady of the Nile<\/em> is a landmark novel about a country \ndivided and a society hurtling towards horror. In gorgeous and \ndevastating prose, Mukasonga captures the dreams, ambitions and \nprejudices of young women growing up as their country falls apart<em>.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018Exquisitely measured . . . Mukasonga\u2019s young boarders are proud, sometimes shy, often very funny.\u2019 \u2013&nbsp;<em><strong>Financial Times<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018The wonder of&nbsp;<em>Our Lady of the Nile<\/em>&nbsp;is in its bright, light touch.\u2019 \u2013&nbsp;&nbsp;<em><strong>Observer<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018Eerily laconic, both comedy and tragedy hauntingly understated . . .\n a book about our inability or refusal to protect children from \nhistory.\u2019 \u2013&nbsp;<strong><em>Guardian<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018Mukasonga\u2019s formidable talent turns this novel about Rwandan girls \nin a Catholic high school into a masterful story about genocide, \ncolonialism, and all the ways that the world can manipulate and destroy \nthe aspirations of girls. This is a deeply moving exploration of human \ncruelties \u2013 and the stubborn hope that rests in each difficult moment. \nThis is a book for our times.\u2019 \u2013 <strong>Maaza Mengiste, author of&nbsp;<em>The Shadow King<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018Scholastique Mukasonga has wrought pain, grief and anger into art. <em>Our Lady of the Nile<\/em>\n demands that we ask ourselves how and where violence begins, and offers\n a clear eyed view of a world falling apart. It is an important \ncontribution to the literature of witness to Rwanda\u2019s agony.\u2019 \u2013&nbsp;<strong>Aminatta Forna, author of <em>Happiness <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018Mukasonga\u2019s masterpiece . . . The novel\u2019s electricity comes from its\n deceptive lightness, the danse macabre of dorm intrigue on the cusp of \nArmageddon.\u2019 \u2013 <strong><em>New York Review of Books<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018An astonishing book: Mukasonga\u2019s style is so light, so charming, and\n yet her story could not be more sombre, more chastening, if it tried.\u2019 \u2013\n <strong><em>Guardian<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u2018In sentences of great beauty and restraint, Mukasonga rescues a \nmillion souls from the collective noun \u2018genocide,\u2019 returning them to us \nas individual human beings.\u2019 \u2013 <strong>Zadie Smith on <em>The Barefoot Woman<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m delighted to announce you that my book \u201cOur Lady of Nile\u201c, translated from french \u201cNotre-Dame du Nile\u201d by Melanie Mauther , was released in the United Kingdom via Daunt Books. Purchase \u2018Our Lady Of Nile\u2019 on Daunt Books. DESCRIPTION : \u2018There is no better lyc\u00e9e than Our Lady of the Nile. 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