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Our Lady of the Nile

Scholastique Mukasonga sets her novel at a girls' boarding school in Rwanda, where friendships, status and rivalries develop in the shadow of social divisions. The school becomes a miniature society in which prejudice can be rehearsed before it turns destructive.

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Scholastique Mukasonga sets her novel at a girls' boarding school in Rwanda, where friendships, status and rivalries develop in the shadow of social divisions. The school becomes a miniature society in which prejudice can be rehearsed before it turns destructive.

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