The Guardian review : Our Lady Of the Nile

Vous pouvez lire un article de Rachel Cooke paru dans le quotidien britanique The Guardian sur ‘Our lady of the Nile‘, la traduction américaine de ‘Notre-Dame du Nil’.

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Extrait de l’article du quotidien The Guardian:

Schoolgirls’ chronicle of a massacre foretold

Scholastique Mukasonga’s novel about life at a Rwandan girls’ school before the genocide is charming but chastening

I hardly ever read novels in translation, but when Archipelago Books – a not-for-profit literary press that publishes international writing in beautiful, rather old-fashioned looking editions – sent me Scholastique Mukasonga’s Our Lady of the Nile, something about it called to me, not least its irresistible opening lines, which go like this: “There is no better lycée than Our Lady of the Nile. Nor is there any higher. Twenty-five hundred metres, the white teachers proudly proclaim.” Though there were at least a dozen other things I should have been reading at the time, I had no choice but to give myself up to it.