OUR LADY OF THE NILE by Scholastique Mukasonga (trans. Melanie Mauther)
It’s Women in Translation Month! For The Fiddlehead’s Stop! Look! Listen! series, I wrote about Scholastique Mukasonga’s haunting novel Our Lady of the Nile. Here’s how the blog post begins:
Recently, I read Scholastique Mukasonga’s novel Our Lady of the Nile (Archipelago Books, 2014). Set in a Catholic lycée for elite young women in Rwanda in the 1980s and told in a lyrical style, the novel develops an atmosphere of dread for the genocide to come while shedding light on the legacy of colonialism.
Stay tuned for one, hopefully two, additional reading recommendations for Women in Translation Month (#witmonth) , right here on this blog.