Gil Courtemanche – författare

Translated from Quebecois, Gil Courtemanche’s The World, The Lizard and Me is an enthralling story of childhood on two continents as an ICC investigator pursues a Congolese warlord responsible the recruitment and dehumanization of child soldiers in civil wars of central Africa. A moving novel about war, work, obsession and the human condition.

In the middle of Kigali is a swimming pool at the Hôtel des Mille-Collines. It is a magnet for a privileged group of residents, a place where middle-class Rwandans drink with melancholy expatriates and prostitutes. But beyond the walls of the hotel exists a chaotic society in which millions live in poverty, surrounded by violence and disease. In this troubled world, Valcourt, a Canadian journalist, falls for Gentille, a beautiful Hutu waitress.A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali is a poignant love story, a stirring hymn to humanity and a modern classic of spellbinding power, confronting the nightmare that ravaged Rwanda in the 1990s.