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Keeping a watchful eye is bernard valcourt, a jaded foreign journalist, but his closest attention is devoted to gentille, a hotel waitress with the slender, elegant build of a tutsi. This must have been a difficult book for him to write, and while he cannot know what it was like inside the hotel as the hutu interahamwe. Buy a sunday at the pool in kigali canons by courtemanche, gil, foden. A sunday at the pool in kigali vintage paperback common. Oct 03, 2003 a sunday at the pool in kigali by gil courtemanche translated by patricia claxton. The main characters of this cultural, africa story are.
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