{"id":82,"date":"2015-09-03T17:09:37","date_gmt":"2015-09-03T15:09:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scholastiquemukasonga.net\/en\/?p=82"},"modified":"2015-09-25T17:47:36","modified_gmt":"2015-09-25T15:47:36","slug":"the-wall-street-journal-our-lady-of-the-nil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scholastiquemukasonga.net\/en\/the-wall-street-journal-our-lady-of-the-nil\/","title":{"rendered":"THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: Our Lady of the Nil"},"content":{"rendered":"

You can read on The Wall Street journal a review by Sam Sacks about my novel \u2018Our Lady of the Nile<\/a>\u2018,
\npublished by Archipelago books.<\/p>\n

Read the review on The Wall Street journal site<\/a><\/p>\n

Like Estebanico, the young women who attend the elite Rwandan boarding school in Scholastique Mukasonga\u2019s \u00ab Our Lady of the Nile \u00bb (Archipelago, 244 pages, $18) have two names. The name of one character is Mutamuriza, but she goes by Virginia at the Hutu-dominated Our Lady of the Nile, where she is one of the few Tutsis permitted to enroll. Virginia\u2019s mother believes that, as the teachers are Europeans and only French is spoken, \u00ab it\u2019s as if you\u2019re no longer Hutu or Tutsi, but have taken on another \u2018ethnicity’: what the Belgians used to refer to as civilized. \u00bb<\/p>\n

It is an unavailing hope. Ms. Mukasonga\u2019s novel (gracefully translated by Melanie Mauthner from the French) takes place 15 years before the Hutu genocide of the Tutsi, and the hatreds that led to the 1994 massacre split the novel in two. In part, this is a good-humored yearbook of the adventures and scandals among the all-girl school\u2019s precocious teenage charges, where the greatest peril to morality is the arrival of a male teacher with long blond hair. But soon the school, abetted by its hypocritical administrators (including those Belgian civilizers), becomes a petri dish for Hutu militancy, and normal adolescent pranks take on horrifying consequences. The novel\u2019s abrupt transition from a na\u00efve coming-of-age story to a violent tragedy is jarring\u2014though surely it doesn\u2019t even begin to convey the shock of the reality.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

You can read on The Wall Street journal a review by Sam Sacks about my novel \u2018Our Lady of the Nile\u2018, published by Archipelago books. 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