Overview
Region
East Africa
Rwanda
Era
Contemporary
Language
French
Genre
Fiction
About This Work
Set in a Catholic girls' school high in the mountains of Rwanda in the 1970s, the novel traces how genocidal ideology seeps into the lives of Hutu and Tutsi students. A haunting prelude to 1994.
Literary Significance
Mukasonga lost 37 family members in the Rwandan genocide; her fiction is essential testimony