For me, the book of Gil Courtemanche's A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali, had a strong resemblance to the script of the film Hotel Rwanda. After have seen the movie twice, it's a positive statement about the book that I did not make the association until nearly two thirds of the way through.
By Moreover, much of the material that is not associated with the film bordered on lewd or scatological. Much that rose above this level time depressed, because he tried like an obsession to detail, the consequences and pathology of AIDS. Doubly unfortunate truth of the last two sentences of the book is probably in its excesses, in the states of reality.
A lasting memory is a character, a visitor from Rwanda, seeing what it takes to be a hill cultivated and effusively praising the presence of agriculture in the city center next moment reality is introduced by his host, who confirmed that the excavation was a cemetery for cultivating profusion of corpses produced by AIDS. The scenes of genocide that still could only match the horror of what went before.
At the heart of the book is the relationship between Valcourt and gentille. He is Canadian, a journalist, film maker, who seems at home in the plight of Rwanda. Gentile is a woman of virtue, a virtue that layers easily. It looks like a Tutsi, but is a Hutu.
In a sense, the relationship reflects the colonial legacy which at least exacerbated, if perhaps not actually caused the potential for ethnic conflict that eventually turned so disastrously. But on Sunday the pool in Kigali to the points of social divisions in a apparently worthless community that looks to other people, both collectively and individually, just as the form given exploitable. Not much joy here, even sex in the book that seems abundant, anesthetized, to dominate much of the text.
But in general there is little to lift the book. Hardly anyone offers love and compassion. Almost an endless stream of cynicism, abuse, persecution and social degeneration flooding of each page. It is a portrait of an experience almost no concessions ugly and disgusting. The book is thus a frequency of a rhythm, a one-dimensional reading. The problem, unfortunately, is that it can be accurate.
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