Our Lady of the Nile, Scholastique Mukasonga
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Our Lady of the Nile

Author: Scholastique Mukasonga, Melanie Mauthner

Narrator: Inger Tudor

Unabridged: 6 hr 35 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 06/28/2022


Synopsis

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.

Author Bio

Scholastique Mukasonga is an award-winning French Rwandan author of novels, memoirs, and short stories. Born in Rwanda in 1956, she experienced from childhood the violence and humiliation of the ethnic conflicts that shook her country. In 1960, her family was displaced to the polluted and underdeveloped Bugesera district of Rwanda. She was later forced to flee to Burundi. She settled in France in 1992, only two years before the brutal genocide of the Tutsi swept through Rwanda. In the aftermath, she learned that thirty-seven of her family members had been massacred.

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