{"id":786,"date":"2021-03-23T18:42:40","date_gmt":"2021-03-23T16:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/scholastiquemukasonga.net\/en\/?p=786"},"modified":"2021-03-23T18:43:41","modified_gmt":"2021-03-23T16:43:41","slug":"the-observer-review-our-lady-of-nile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholastiquemukasonga.net\/en\/the-observer-review-our-lady-of-nile\/","title":{"rendered":"The Observer Review: Our Lady of Nile"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>You can read a new great review of <em>John Self<\/em>\u00a0 from <em>The Observer<\/em> for my novel &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/scholastiquemukasonga.net\/en\/out-now-our-lady-of-nile-daunt-books\/\"><em>Our Lady Of nile<\/em><\/a>&#8221; (translated by <em>Melanie Mauthner<\/em>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My book is out now on <a href=\"https:\/\/dauntbooks.co.uk\/shop\/books\/our-lady-of-the-nile\/\"><strong>Daunt Books<\/strong><\/a> my publisher in UK.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">&#8220;&#8230;(a) surprisingly bright, light-touch debut&#8221;<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p>But bubbling under, then boiling over, is the ethnic division between Hutu and Tutsi, which in 1994 led to the slaughter of more than half a million Tutsi in three months. Mukasonga, a Tutsi, was exiled from Rwanda before settling in France in 1992; 37 members of her family were killed in the genocide. It\u2019s little wonder that her early books focus on this, but the wonder of Our Lady of the Nile is in its bright, light touch&#8230; &nbsp;The drama that ends the book, when the threat to \u201cde-Tutsify our schools\u201d is realised, is a foreshock of violence to come. We hear the rumble of what Mukasonga in her memoir, Cockroaches, calls \u201cthe machinery of the genocide\u201d. Thanks to Mukasonga, who has been tipped for the Nobel prize in literature for her ability to make art from bearing witness, we are hearing its echoes still.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2021\/mar\/15\/our-lady-of-the-nile-by-scholastique-mukasonga-review-prelude-to-violence\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Read the full review<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can read a new great review of John Self\u00a0 from The Observer for my novel &#8220;Our Lady Of nile&#8221; (translated by Melanie Mauthner). My book is out now on Daunt Books my publisher in UK. &#8220;&#8230;(a) surprisingly bright, light-touch debut&#8221; But bubbling under, then boiling over, is the ethnic division between Hutu and Tutsi,&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":785,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,4],"tags":[142,25,8,17,10,145,99],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.10 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>The Observer Review: Our Lady of Nile - Scholastique Mukasonga<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"You can read a new review of John Self\u00a0 from The Observer for my novel &quot;Our Lady Of nile&quot; (translated by Melanie Mauthner).\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/scholastiquemukasonga.net\/en\/the-observer-review-our-lady-of-nile\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Observer Review: Our Lady of Nile - 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