Our Lady of the Nile

There are few modern tragedies as horrific as the 1994 Rwandan genocide. The standard North Atlantic perspective tends to focus on the brutal events themselves and the lack of humanitarian intervention by global powers. Our Lady of the Nile, Melanie Mauthner's translation of Notre-Dame du Nil by Sch......more

A haunting, harrowing, lovely novel. I will not even try to do it justice. Set at a Catholic boarding school in Rwanda sometime around 1980, a deep sense of place and history gives the book a quiet magic; a groundedness that by turns softens and heightens the undercurrent of violence pulling the sto......more

O genocídio de Ruanda, ocorrido em 1994, é um dos episódios mais tristes e brutais sobre os que já li. Cerca de 1 milhão de pessoas foram mortas em apenas 100 dias. Além disso, ter visitado o país em 2019 me permitiu ver de perto como esse acontecimento está marcado profundamente na sociedade, ao me......more

There is no better lycee than Our Lady of the Nile. Nor is there any higher...."We're so close to heaven," whispers Mother Superior.... The school year coincides with the rainy season, so the lycee is often wrapped in clouds. Sometimes, not often, the sun peaks through and you can see as far as the......more