Archipelago Books Celebrates Release of OUR LADY OF THE NILE by Scholastique Mukasonga Today

Today, September 23, join us in celebrating the release of Our Lady of the Nile, Scholastique Mukasonga's Prix Renaudot-winning novel, translated from the French by Melanie Mauthner.

Co-hosted by the French Publishers' Agency, the evening will feature a conversation with Scholastique Mukasonga and Bhakti Shringarpure.

This event is free and open to the public; refreshments will be served.

In her first novel, Our Lady of the Nile, Scholastique Mukasonga drops us into an elite Catholic boarding school for young women perched on the ridge 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 a masterful prose that is at once subtle and penetrating, Mukasonga captures a society hurtling toward horror.

Please join us in welcoming Scholastique Mukasonga to New York!

WINNER OF THE FRENCH VOICES GRAND PRIZE
WINNER OF THE 2012 PRIX RENAUDOT
A Publishers Weekly Big Indie Book of 2014

September 23 @ 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Dumbo | Sky
10 Jay Street, 9th floor, Brooklyn

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