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Our Lady of the Nile
A Literary Fiction Novel by Scholastique Mukasonga
Subgenres:
- Historical Fiction,
- Boarding School,
- Rwanda
This book is for you if you're into...
- Boarding school stories set against looming political unrest
- Friendship and betrayal shaped by deep social divisions
- Intimate looks at prejudice within closed communities
Friendship, deceit, fear, and persecution at an elite boarding school for young women in Rwanda, fifteen years before the 1994 genocide of the Tutsi.
Scholastique Mukasonga drops us into an elite Catholic boarding school for young women perched on the edge of the Nile. Parents send their daughters to Our Lady of the Nile to be molded into respectable citizens and to escape the dangers of the outside world.
Fifteen years prior to the 1994 Rwandan genocide, we watch as these girls try on their parents' preconceptions and attitudes, transforming the lycée into a microcosm of the country's mounting racial tensions and violence.
In the midst of the interminable rainy season, everything unfolds behind the closed doors of the school: friendship, curiosity, fear, deceit, prejudice, and persecution.
With masterful prose that is at once subtle and penetrating, Mukasonga captures a society hurtling towards horror.
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